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Rise vs Rishawn

American parents have registered 1,173 Rises since 1880, against 137 Rishawns. Rise is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rise against Rishawn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rise Rishawn

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 57 years in which either name was published, Rise for 44 years and Rishawn for 13 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Rise Rishawn
Total US births 1,173137
Most in one year 6742
Babies in 2025 15under 5
Estimated living today 960130
Median age today 6736
Peak year 19551989
Best rank 1,229th girls1,793rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19421985
Girls / boys 1,099 / 740 / 137

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 Rises alive today are over 67; half the Rishawns are over 36. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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