Given name & surname
Rika
Rika is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Albanian.
Original Japanese梨香
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 555
- 0 boys · 555 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −83%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,167 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rika’s family of names
Rika has a related form in Rica. Rika has a related form in Rikë. In Greek usage, Rika is a transliteration of Ρίκα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 17
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rika
- Rika MasuyaJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Rica MatsumotoJapanese voice actress, actress and singerborn 1968
- Rika FujiwaraJapanese tennis playerborn 1981
- Rika ZaraïIsraeli singer (1938–2020)
- Rika KihiraJapanese figure skaterborn 2002
- Rika IshikawaJapanese female singer and talent (1985-)
- Rika AdachiJapanese actressborn 1992
- Rika FukamiJapanese voice actressborn 1963
- Rika HirakiJapanese tennis playerborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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