Rikita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rikita has been given to 93 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1992, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Rikita, 1997
1 in 453,000
Rikita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rikita?
Rikita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 453,000
- 8 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 314,055 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rikita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 314,055 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rikita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rikitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rikita was born before 1989 — so the typical Rikita is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 51.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 93
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (48).
Is Rikita 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
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- 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 1992 (14)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.1% average annual change
Spellings of Rikita
Rikita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 87.1% against Rikita's 0.03%.
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.
Rikita around the world
Where Rikita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–1998#3,848in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rikita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rikita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rikita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.