Riker

#2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births

Peak · boys
2015 · 95 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,258
since 1991

Riker over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Riker has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,657, 2015boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#2,67648
2024#2,12070
2023#1,95479
2022#1,89283
2021#1,90380
2020#2,04669
2019#1,84981
2018#1,98174
2017#1,84480
2016#1,66395
2015#1,65795
2014#1,90776
2013#2,49249
2012#3,05937
2011#3,51030
2010#4,09924
2009#4,92219
2008#5,48716
2007#5,21017
2006#6,90411
2005#5,57814
2004#5,81313
2003#6,25811
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2000#6,8399
1999#7,1398
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1996#7,9716
1995#4,50813
1994#5,10911
1993#4,22714
1992#8,4355
1991#7,2716
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First appearance
1991

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.

See more about Riker
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 556 spots since 2024 (#2,120#2,676)
  • 630 spots since 2020 (#2,046#2,676)
  • 1,019 spots since 2015 (#1,657#2,676)
Rise & fade · boys
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2015 at #1,657 (95 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,976
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 51.0% of all boys named Riker (641) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s72#4,227 (1993)#6,345
2000s116#4,922 (2009)#6,250
2010s641#1,657 (2015)#2,406
2020s429#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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