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Rishabh vs Rishi

American parents have registered 5,142 Rishis since 1880, against 996 Rishabhs. Rishi is still ahead, with 207 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rishabh against Rishi, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rishabh Rishi

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

Rishi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Rishabh had 51 and Rishi had 135.

Side by side

  Rishabh Rishi
Total US births 9965,142
Most in one year 61229
Babies in 2025 19207
Estimated living today 9805,100
Median age today 1616
Peak year 20062023
Best rank 2,126th boys969th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th1,056th
First recorded 19921974
Girls / boys 0 / 9960 / 5,142

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.

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 Rishabh Rishi
England and Wales 1671,316

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: Rishabh and Rishi.