Meaning not yet researched.
Riker: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,665 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,665 in 2015; #2,709 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Riker in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,709 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,665.
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Riker: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,665 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 95 (2016).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Riker, making it the 2,709th most common boys’ name of the year, down 578 places from #2,131 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 70 boys named Riker in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,665, reached in 2015. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,665 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riker in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 6 babies. In all, 1,258 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 641 babies named Riker.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 759 US boys were named Riker; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riker ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,873 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryker (41,784 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Riker in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,873 | #1,883 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,709 |
| 2024 | — | — | 70 | #2,131 |
| 2023 | — | — | 79 | #1,962 |
| 2022 | — | — | 83 | #1,904 |
| 2021 | — | — | 80 | #1,909 |
| 2020 | — | — | 69 | #2,062 |
| 2019 | — | — | 81 | #1,863 |
| 2018 | — | — | 74 | #1,991 |
| 2017 | — | — | 80 | #1,854 |
| 2016 | — | — | 95 | #1,672 |
| 2015 | — | — | 95 | #1,665 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,916 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,517 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,104 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,582 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,208 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,064 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,715 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,389 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,319 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,814 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,069 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,629 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,283 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,279 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,727 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,509 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,787 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,732 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,381 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,401 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,513 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,030 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).