Riker
- #2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 95 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,258since 1991
Riker over time
Rank among boys' names. Riker has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,676 | 48 |
| 2024 | #2,120 | 70 |
| 2023 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | #1,892 | 83 |
| 2021 | #1,903 | 80 |
| 2020 | #2,046 | 69 |
| 2019 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #1,981 | 74 |
| 2017 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #1,657 | 95 |
| 2014 | #1,907 | 76 |
| 2013 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
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| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #7,139 | 8 |
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| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Riker! It came in at #7,271, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Riker is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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See more about Riker
- 630 spots since 2020 (#2,046 → #2,676)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2015 at #1,657 (95 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,976 boys born in 2016 were named Riker (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,585 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,657 in 2015, was only 1 in 20,176 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.0% of all boys named Riker (641) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 72 | #4,227 (1993) | #6,345 |
| 2000s | 116 | #4,922 (2009) | #6,250 |
| 2010s | 641 | #1,657 (2015) | #2,406 |
| 2020s | 429 | #1,892 (2022) | #2,099 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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