Given name

Rikako

Rikako is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese里花子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Rikako comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese りかこ (Rikako).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Rikako through the years

Babies since 1880
10
0 boys · 10 girls
Most popular year
1995
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012320002025Highest share 19950.0
Rikako in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1995–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Rikako’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Rikako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 梨花子. In Japanese usage, Rikako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 梨賀子. In Japanese usage, Rikako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 梨香子.

Walk Rikako’s family in the name graph

Rikako里花子里佳子立花子梨香子梨賀子梨花子

The ring: spellings.

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