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Rishab vs Rishabh

American parents have registered 996 Rishabhs since 1880, against 644 Rishabs. Rishabh is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rishab Rishabh

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 33 years in which either name was published, Rishabh for 30 years and Rishab for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Rishab Rishabh
Total US births 644996
Most in one year 4761
Babies in 2025 1019
Estimated living today 640980
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20062006
Best rank 2,542nd boys2,126th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th5,045th
First recorded 19951992
Girls / boys 0 / 6440 / 996

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 Rishabs alive today are over 18; half the Rishabhs are over 16. That is 2 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 Rishab Rishabh
England and Wales 52167

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: Rishab and Rishabh.