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Ritesh

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ritesh has been given to 171 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2012, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ritesh, 2015

1 in 411,000

Ritesh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ritesh: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ritesh means

Ritesh is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ritesh is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 171 boys were recorded with the name Ritesh between 1976 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,333 in 1976.

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 Ritesh?

Ritesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 411,000
9 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
285,083 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ritesh 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 2015 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 285,083 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ritesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riteshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ritesh was born before 2004 — so the typical Ritesh is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Ritesh 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 2012 (13)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,333
1976

Spellings of Ritesh

Ritesh is not the most common spelling — Rajesh is, with 80.0% against Ritesh's 20.0%.

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.

Ritesh around the world

Where Ritesh 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
    1999–2013
    #3,315
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ritesh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,333
1976
Peak year
2012
13 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ritesh

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

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Sibling names for Ritesh

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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