Rikki

Where Rikki comes from

Rikki hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1981
    Rikki Clarke born
    cricketer
  4. 1994
    Peak, #613
    362 babies named Rikki — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,166.
  6. 1998
    Rikki Doak born
    Canadian short track speed skater
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rikki Clarke · cricketer, born 1981
  • Rikki Doak · Canadian short track speed skater, born 1998
  • Rikki Bains · English footballer, born 1988
  • Rikki Fulton · Scottish actor, 1924–2004
  • Rikki Fifton · British sprinter, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.