How rare is the name Rikki?

6,376 people in the United States have the first name Rikki, about 1 in 47,370. It ranks #3,327 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RIKKI

#3,327

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,376
About
1 in 47,370
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,376 people named Rikki, 71.5% reported their origin as White, 10.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.6% as Black. 91.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rikki peaked in 1994, when 377 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19432025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
377
In 2025*
52 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,712 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Rikki by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,354. The largest share of babies named Rikki, 51.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#5,15896
1950s#3,425261
1960s#3,705270
1970s#1,973991
1980s#1,3542,208
1990s#1,5252,374
2000s#4,512647
2010s#5,050585
2020s#5,897280
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–645.8%
Generation X 1965–8017.3%
Millennials 1981–9651.7%
Generation Z 1997–1216%
2013 and later9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Rikki is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rikki has been most common in Oklahoma (3×), Colorado (2.3×), and Arizona (2.1×), and least common in Alabama (0.4×).

4,040 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Rikki

#3,325 Yahaira · 6,386#3,326 Merrill · 6,383#3,328 Paislee · 6,375#3,329 Leonid · 6,374

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rikki, most common first.

#3,777 Ricki · 5,253#9,021 Riki · 1,571#44,359 Rikka · 156#45,337 Rikke · 150#50,823 Rikky · 117#52,287 Rikkie · 108

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