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Ritik vs Ritika

American parents have registered 576 Ritikas since 1880, against 64 Ritiks. Ritika is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ritik against Ritika, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ritik Ritika

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

Ritika has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1983 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Ritik had 20 and Ritika had 34.

Side by side

  Ritik Ritika
Total US births 64576
Most in one year 2048
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 60570
Median age today 2419
Peak year 20002001
Best rank 3,922nd boys2,963rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 20001983
Girls / boys 0 / 64576 / 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 Ritiks alive today are over 24; half the Ritikas are over 19. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Ritik Ritika
England and Wales 40132
France 515

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: Ritik and Ritika.