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Riziki

Gender
Girl
Say it
ree-ZEE-kee
Origin
Swahili
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Riziki is a girls' name of Swahili origin, meaning “provision, livelihood, blessings”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Riziki mean?

Swahili: Swahili word, from Arabic rizq

“provision, livelihood, blessings”

The Swahili word for daily provision or livelihood, borrowed from Arabic rizq 'sustenance granted by God'.

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

Riziki is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Riziki in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,131st among girls
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 262% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Riziki, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.

Half of all the girls named Riziki in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2017Busiest: 19 in 20242025
Riziki in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202419#6,164
202313#8,050
20228#11,225
20218#11,141
20206#13,448
20197#12,442
20180–
20175#15,898

Names like Riziki

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Riziki: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/riziki, updated 20 October 2026.