Meaning not yet researched.
Rishi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 207 in 2025. Its best rank was #938 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #938 in 2008; #1,059 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rishi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,059 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #938.
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Rishi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 207 boys in 2025. Peak: #938 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 229 (2023).
In 2025, 207 US boys were named Rishi, making it the 1,059th most common boys’ name of the year, up 54 places from #1,113 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 193 boys named Rishi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #938, reached in 2008. The most boys given the name in a single year was 229, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,324 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rishi in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 15 babies. In all, 5,142 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,578 babies named Rishi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,655 US boys were named Rishi; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 229. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,252 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rishi ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #445 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rishy and Reshia are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rishy (13), Reshia (5).
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 Rishi 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #445 | #575 |
| California | 50 | #598 | #954 |
| Washington | 10 | #674 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #683 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #688 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #788 | #769 |
| Georgia | 10 | #908 | #1,348 |
| Illinois | 8 | #997 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,008 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,101 | #1,322 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,181 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,208 | #1,142 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,219 | #658 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,394 | #789 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,436 | #974 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 207 | #1,059 |
| 2024 | — | — | 193 | #1,113 |
| 2023 | — | — | 229 | #969 |
| 2022 | — | — | 210 | #1,051 |
| 2021 | — | — | 161 | #1,205 |
| 2020 | — | — | 156 | #1,213 |
| 2019 | — | — | 129 | #1,385 |
| 2018 | — | — | 115 | #1,505 |
| 2017 | — | — | 121 | #1,432 |
| 2016 | — | — | 134 | #1,337 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,324 |
| 2014 | — | — | 114 | #1,443 |
| 2013 | — | — | 142 | #1,248 |
| 2012 | — | — | 129 | #1,326 |
| 2011 | — | — | 135 | #1,276 |
| 2010 | — | — | 169 | #1,117 |
| 2009 | — | — | 173 | #1,076 |
| 2008 | — | — | 217 | #938 |
| 2007 | — | — | 205 | #966 |
| 2006 | — | — | 171 | #1,051 |
| 2005 | — | — | 184 | #951 |
| 2004 | — | — | 171 | #980 |
| 2003 | — | — | 128 | #1,172 |
| 2002 | — | — | 150 | #1,025 |
| 2001 | — | — | 94 | #1,363 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,462 |
| 1999 | — | — | 72 | #1,554 |
| 1998 | — | — | 70 | #1,544 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,192 |
| 1996 | — | — | 52 | #1,779 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,664 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,631 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,818 |
| 1992 | — | — | 50 | #1,723 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #2,008 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,866 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,637 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,546 |
| 1987 | — | — | 36 | #1,826 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,719 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,473 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,877 |
| 1983 | — | — | 47 | #1,372 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,559 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,290 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,389 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,932 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,467 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,253 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,223 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,875 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,647 |
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).