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Rishabh

#5,158 in 2025Boys' name

Bull, ox, through ऋषभ

Rishabh has been given to 996 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,158 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Rishabh, 2025

1 in 174,000

Rishabh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rishabh: meaning, origin, and history

Bull, ox, through ऋषभ

Hindi

What Rishabh means

Rishabh belongs to the name family reached through Rishabh → ऋषभ → ऋषभ. Its meaning is “bull, ox”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi ऋषभ (ŕṣabh). Doublet of Rushabh and Rishabha.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rishabh (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rishabh is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Rishabh comes through Hindi ऋषभ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ऋषभ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 996 boys were recorded with the name Rishabh between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,104 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,185 in 2020 to #5,158 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,667 in 2015 to #5,158 in 2025.

How common is Rishabh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,158
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rishabh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rishabh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rishabhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rishabh was born before 2009 — so the typical Rishabh is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
996
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (467).

Is Rishabh 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
+234
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,491
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.1%
Peak was 2006 (61)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,104
2005

Spellings of Rishabh

Rishabh is not the most common spelling — Rishaan is, with 45.8% against Rishabh's 32.9%.

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 Rishabh is used

Across 1910–2025, Rishabh was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 194,290 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Rishabh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rishabh around the world

Where Rishabh 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,209
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2003–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Rishabh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,158
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 27
Best rank ever
#2,104
2005
Peak year
2006
61 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
996
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Rishabh

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

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Sibling names for Rishabh

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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