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Riddick

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Riddick is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).

What does Riddick mean?

English: surname of uncertain origin

Richard B. Riddick is the antihero of the film Pitch Black (2000) and its sequels.

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Is Riddick a girl's or a boy's name?

Riddick is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Riddick in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,397among boys
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Riddick, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2016, with 52 boys. It first appears in the records in 1922.

Half of all the boys named Riddick in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1922Busiest: 52 in 20162025
Riddick in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202517#5,397
202413#6,464
202320#4,882
202222#4,566
202116#5,557
202019#4,851
201928#3,791
201836#3,168
201735#3,248
201652#2,437
201539#2,965
201437#3,036
201330#3,495
201228#3,711
201128#3,694
201035#3,180
200920#4,746
200831#3,483
200737#3,088
200632#3,304
200544#2,524
200423#3,855
20035#10,886
20020–
20015#10,548
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19225#4,305

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