Rishi
#1,056 for boys in 2025, 207 births
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 217 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,142since 1974
Rishi over time
Rank among boys' names. Rishi has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,056 | 207 |
| 2024 | #1,108 | 193 |
| 2023 | #969 | 229 |
| 2022 | #1,049 | 210 |
| 2021 | #1,200 | 161 |
| 2020 | #1,209 | 156 |
| 2019 | #1,380 | 129 |
| 2018 | #1,498 | 115 |
| 2017 | #1,429 | 121 |
| 2016 | #1,329 | 134 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 134 |
| 2014 | #1,442 | 114 |
| 2013 | #1,243 | 142 |
| 2012 | #1,322 | 129 |
| 2011 | #1,271 | 135 |
| 2010 | #1,116 | 169 |
| 2009 | #1,074 | 173 |
| 2008 | #936 | 217 |
| 2007 | #959 | 205 |
| 2006 | #1,049 | 171 |
| 2005 | #950 | 184 |
| 2004 | #977 | 171 |
| 2003 | #1,167 | 128 |
| 2002 | #1,022 | 150 |
| 2001 | #1,357 | 94 |
| 2000 | #1,448 | 85 |
| 1999 | #1,545 | 72 |
| 1998 | #1,536 | 70 |
| 1997 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #1,648 | 55 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #1,840 | 42 |
| 1989 | #1,615 | 49 |
| 1988 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #1,694 | 37 |
| 1985 | #1,452 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #1,361 | 47 |
| 1982 | #1,539 | 40 |
| 1981 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1980 | #1,378 | 47 |
| 1979 | #1,903 | 28 |
| 1978 | #1,452 | 41 |
| 1977 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rishi! It came in at #2,549, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 16 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rishi
- 52 spots since 2024 (#1,108 → #1,056)
- 153 spots since 2020 (#1,209 → #1,056)
- 261 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,056)
- Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2004 (#1,167 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 139 spots in 2024 (#969 → #1,108)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2008 at #936 (217 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2004–2005
- Highest: 1 in 7,470 boys born in 2023 were named Rishi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,252 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #936 in 2008, was only 1 in 9,402 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.7% of all boys named Rishi (1,578) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 131 | #1,452 (1978) | #2,325 |
| 1980s | 432 | #1,270 (1981) | #1,547 |
| 1990s | 523 | #1,536 (1998) | #1,758 |
| 2000s | 1,578 | #936 (2008) | #1,094 |
| 2010s | 1,322 | #1,116 (2010) | #1,335 |
| 2020s | 1,156 | #969 (2023) | #1,099 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rishi in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 14,705 of them was named Rishi, which outranked 90.7% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,314Korey130
- #1,314Ryu130
- #1,314Tevin130
- #1,322Rishi129
- #1,322Ajay129
- #1,322Aydenn129
- #1,322Braedon129
- #1,328Anakin128
- #1,328Boone128
- #1,328Bryton128
Tied with 5 names at #1,322; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.