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Rida vs Ridhi

American parents have registered 1,053 Ridas since 1880, against 545 Ridhis. Rida is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rida against Ridhi, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rida Ridhi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 41 years in which either name was published, Rida for 31 years and Ridhi for 10 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Rida Ridhi
Total US births 1,053545
Most in one year 5739
Babies in 2025 2321
Estimated living today 1,000540
Median age today 1810
Peak year 20052017
Best rank 2,865th girls3,848th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th5,722nd
First recorded 19281994
Girls / boys 986 / 67545 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ridas alive today are over 18; half the Ridhis are over 10. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rida Ridhi
England and Wales 720135

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rida and Ridhi.