Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Rikita

#25,690 most common girls' name of all time · #41,648 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1979–1997

Rank among girls
#25,690
Rank overall
#41,648 of 105,966
First appeared
1979
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
93
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1992 #6,559
Best rank
#6,559 1992
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
1980

Rikita first appears in 1979. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1997 8 — 8 #10,333
1994 8 — 8 #10,124
1992 14 — 14 #6,559
1991 10 — 10 #8,390
1989 8 — 8 #9,392
1988 9 — 9 #8,228
1987 6 — 6 #10,848
1986 7 — 7 #9,318
1985 7 — 7 #9,098
1983 5 — 5 #11,598
1981 6 — 6 #10,209
1979 5 — 5 #11,837