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Rikki

#3,126 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Feminine form of Ricky

Rikki has been given to 7,712 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #3,126 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 362 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Rikki, 2025

1 in 63,800

Rikki over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rikki over time

In 2025, Rikki went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19432025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Rikki: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ricky

Danish

What Rikki means

Rikki is a feminine form of Ricky.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rikki → Ricky → Richard. The family’s meaning is “king, ruler + hard, brave”, recorded in English with the source elements rīks and harduz.

Origin, language, and formation

Rikki is used in Greenlandic. Its origins include Danish.

Rikki comes through Danish Regine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ricky.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Greenlandic, Rikki is pronounced /rikki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,088 girls were recorded with the name Rikki between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 362 in 1994; its best national rank was #614 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,665 in 2020 to #3,126 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,614 in 2015 to #3,126 in 2025.

In the United States, 624 boys were recorded with the name Rikki between 1947 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,878 in 1956.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rikki?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,126
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rikki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rikki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rikkis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rikki was born before 1990 — so the typical Rikki is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,007
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (2,222).

Is Rikki 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
+617
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+539
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−512
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.4%
Peak was 1994 (362)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#614
1994

Spellings of Rikki

Rikki is not the most common spelling — Vicki is, with 59.5% against Rikki's 2.7%.

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.

Where Rikki is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Rikki was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 35,745 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  2. 2Colorado1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 20,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rikki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Rikki is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Rikki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,025,453 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rikki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rikki around the world

Where Rikki 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,633
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rikki

People whose public names include Rikki, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rikki in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rikki. Linked forms have their own page here.

RikiRickiRickyRikkie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rikki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,126
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 539
Best rank ever
#614
1994
Peak year
1994
362 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,088
Count in 2025
52

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,878
1956
Peak year
1991
29 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
624
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rikki

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Rikki

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rikki, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rikki

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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