Rikki
#3,100 for girls in 2025, 52 births · Last seen for boys in 2016 at #9,664
Given to girls 91.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 362 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,088since 1943
Rikki over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,100 | 52 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,697 | 64 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,533 | 70 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,010 | 56 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #3,214 | 53 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,436 | 72 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #2,737 | 57 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,998 | 83 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 108 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,166 | 158 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #957 | 201 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #754 | 270 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #613 | 362 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #754 | 275 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #794 | 254 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #866 | 231 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #822 | 238 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #852 | 218 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #767 | 244 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #779 | 227 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #783 | 216 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #795 | 209 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #875 | 173 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #804 | 193 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #829 | 189 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #785 | 207 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #913 | 165 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #974 | 147 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #1,194 | 105 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #1,016 | 132 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #1,131 | 105 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #1,026 | 117 | #2,450 | 17 |
| 1974 | #1,226 | 89 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #1,773 | 49 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #1,832 | 46 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,594 | 59 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,952 | 43 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #2,171 | 34 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,039 | 33 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #2,110 | 31 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | #1,821 | 19 |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 | #2,449 | 11 |
| 1953 | #2,431 | 19 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,978 | 26 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,901 | 25 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rikki! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1945, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rikki
- 595 spots since 2024 (#3,695 → #3,100)
- 507 spots since 2020 (#3,607 → #3,100)
- 510 spots since 2015 (#2,590 → #3,100)
- Biggest jump: 220 spots in 1979 (#1,194 → #974)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 1997 (#957 → #1,166)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1994 at #613 (362 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1979–1996
- Highest: 1 in 4,933 girls born in 1994 were named Rikki (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,909 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.3% of all girls named Rikki (2,222) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1956, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 81 | #1,901 (1948) | #3,307 |
| 1950s | 180 | #1,978 (1952) | #2,675 |
| 1960s | 235 | #2,039 (1967) | #2,717 |
| 1970s | 892 | #974 (1979) | #1,372 |
| 1980s | 2,041 | #767 (1988) | #818 |
| 1990s | 2,222 | #613 (1994) | #966 |
| 2000s | 596 | #1,998 (2000) | #2,842 |
| 2010s | 561 | #2,533 (2013) | #3,010 |
| 2020s | 280 | #3,100 (2025) | #3,375 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rikki in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 14,589 of them was named Rikki, which outranked 89.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,186Shona106
- #1,186Tamela106
- #1,186Tory106
- #1,194Rikki105
- #1,194Arianne105
- #1,194Kevin105
- #1,194Latoria105
- #1,202Dalia104
- #1,202Denice104
- #1,202Frankie104
Tied with 7 names at #1,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 96,579 of them was named Rikki, which outranked 62.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,473Tzvi18
- #2,473Vu18
- #2,473Walt18
- #2,568Rikki17
- #2,568Agapito17
- #2,568Aharon17
- #2,568Akbar17
- #2,669Alexi16
- #2,669Alvino16
- #2,669Ana16
Tied with 100 names at #2,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.