How popular is the name Rikki?

Rikki ranks 1,161st among girls' names in US records, with 13,961 births since 1896. Over the past decade it accounts for 900.

Is Rikki a unisex name?

No. Rikki is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1994, when 585 children were given the name. It has been in use for 129 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Ricki, Rickie, Rickey. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,161 of girl names

Pronounced R IH1 K IY0 (ARPABET)

Rikki is a girls' name, and first appears in 1896. It has been given to 13,961 children — the 1,161st most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1994, when 585 children were given it.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Ricki, Rickie and Rickey — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Rikki and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Rikki?: Rikki ranks 1,161st among girls' names in US records, with 13,961 births since 1896. Over the past decade it accounts for 900.
Is Rikki a unisex name?: No. Rikki is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Rikki most popular?: 1994, when 585 children were given the name. It has been in use for 129 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Rikki spelled?: Ricki, Rickie, Rickey. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.