Rikki
Rikki reached its high-water mark in 1994 at number 613, and has been recorded 7,712 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,100th. About 7,400 Rikkis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rikki boys named Rikki
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,712
- Estimated living today
- 7,400
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 613th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,100th
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 7,088 / 624
How old the living Rikkis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,712 babies given the name since 1943, about 7,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Rikki is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rikki is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.0×), Colorado (2.3×), Arizona (2.1×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular girls’ names the year Rikki peaked:
Rikki elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Rikki | 148 | 132nd |
| England and Wales girls | Rikki | 142 | 1,045th |
| England and Wales boys | Rikki | 85 | 654th |
| Belgium girls | Rikki | 5 | 1,484th |
| Ireland boys | Rikki | 3 | 324th |
| Scotland girls | Rikki | 3 | 653rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rikki: rank by region
In 2012, Rikki was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Rikki | 874 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Rikki against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.