Rikishi
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rikishi has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Rikishi, 2000
1 in 378,000
Rikishi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rikishi?
Rikishi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 378,000
- 10 of 3,778,496 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 196,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 261,907 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rikishi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 261,907 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rikishi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rikishis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rikishi was born before 2000 — so the typical Rikishi is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Rikishi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (10)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Rikishi
Rikishi is not the most common spelling — Rishi is, with 99.8% against Rikishi's 0.19%.
- Rishi99.8%5,142
- Rikishi0.19%10
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Rikishi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rikishi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rikishi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.