Riki

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~1,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #10,107 among girls
Births in 2025: 9 1,626 since 1880
Typical age: 38 years, median

Riki popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1945–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Riki was used most in 1981, when 54 babies were given the name. The name does not appear in the data until 1945. The 2025 position is #10,107, on 9 births.

Year on year the rank improved by 164.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Riki?

An estimated 1,500 living Americans are called Riki. SSA has recorded 1,626 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 1,100 women and 400 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Riki?

The typical living Riki is 38 years old. More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Riki a late 20th-century name.

Your Riki

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Riki a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

The name leans girls, but 13.8% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 73.4% of births under the name were girls.

Riki in England and Wales

ONS recorded 3 births named Riki in 2025, ranking it #5,927. That is 50% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Notable people named Riki

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Riki Harakawa	Japanese association football player	1993	37
Riki Lindhome	American actress	1979	30
Riki Takasaki	Japanese association football player	1970	23
Riki Matsuda	Japanese association football player	1991	22
Riki Nakaya	Japanese judoka	1989	22
Riki Kitawaki	Japanese association football player (1985-)	1985	17
Riki Takagi	Japanese association football player and manager	1978	16
Riki Takeuchi	Japanese actor-singer	1964	10

Photo credits (3)

Riki Harakawa — Whispered11, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Riki Nakaya — Pink-seoul-judo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Riki Takeuchi — Mkfmmkfm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Riki

Rita #1,285 in 2025

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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