Rikki
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of the girl’s name Ricky
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɪki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rikki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 103K(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 703as Ricky
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 708as Ricky
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rikki itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #754 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 569 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈910,000 named Ricky, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ricky in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 5 more and Riki in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of the girl’s name Ricky.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rikki counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ricky | 62 |
| ID Indonesia | #222 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Riki | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #126 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 708 | — | Ricky | 139 |
| US United States | #330 | 146,356as Ricky | 1 in 2.3K | 145K | Ricky | 569 |
| GB United Kingdom | #323 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 19 | Ricky | 275 |
| HK Hong Kong | #154 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 703 | — | Ricky | 108 |
| GR Greece | #259 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ricky | 22 |
| SG Singapore | #161 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ricky | 94 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 168 | 1 in 103K | 2K | Ricky | 84 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rikki is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: feminine form of Ricky or Rickie (pet forms of Rick , a short form of RICHARD ), modelled on NIKKI and Vikki (see VICKY ).
as a word
In Finnish, sulfur, sulphur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, broken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, sulfur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rikki Fultonb. 1924GBScottish actor (1924-2004)
- Rikki Kliemanb. 1948USAmerican lawyer
- Rikki Beadle-Blairb. 1961GBBritish actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, singer, designer, choreographer, dancer and songwriter
- Rikki Lixxb. 1966USAmerican pornographic actress
- Rosearik Rikki Simonsb. 1970USAmerican voice actor, writer, graphic novelist, and artist
- Rikki Chamberlainb. 1973GBBritish actor
- Rikki Clarkeb. 1981GBcricketer (born 1981)
- Rikki Fiftonb. 1985GBBritish sprinter
- Rikki Bainsb. 1988GBEnglish footballer (born 1988)
- Rikki Doakb. 1998CACanadian short track speed skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rikki mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of the girl’s name Ricky. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Rikki a male or female name?
- Rikki is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Rikki?
- In the etymology graph, Ricarda, Ric and Riho are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Richelle.
- How do you pronounce Rikki?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɪki/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rikki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 913 thousand people named Ricky in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rikki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rikki is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 103 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rikki?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 168 people named Rikki, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Rikki compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rikki is the 126th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rikkiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rikki” — the 126th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.