Riddhi
Feminine · “Prosperity”
Riddhi is prosperity, and in Hindu tradition she is a person: Riddhi and Siddhi are the two wives of Ganesha, prosperity and accomplishment, and the pair is given together so often that the names are hard to separate.
How old is the name Riddhi?
Riddhi first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Riddhi alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 700 people named Riddhi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Riddhi most popular?
Riddhi peaked in 2007, reaching #4380 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 1,174 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ṛddhi to Riddhi
The story of Riddhi
Ganesha is the remover of obstacles and the lord of beginnings, and the tradition gives him Riddhi and Siddhi as wives, personifications of the two things a successful undertaking requires — the prosperity to sustain it and the skill to complete it. The words are old Sanskrit and appear well before the personification. As a given name Riddhi is modern, ordinary among Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi-speaking families, and often paired with a sister named Siddhi. American records show it from the 1990s with Indian migration and a peak in 2007.
Meaning
Prosperity, growth, abundance
From Sanskrit ṛddhi, growth, increase or prosperity, from a root meaning to thrive. The reading is settled. Riddhi and Siddhi — prosperity and attainment — are named as Ganesha's consorts in the Puranas, and the pairing is standard in devotional usage. The doubled d in transliteration marks a retroflex consonant rather than a length.
How the name formed
- ṛddhi
- Riddhi
Related forms: ऋद्धि · ऋद्धि · ઋદ્ધિ
Pronouncing Riddhi
RID-hee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The Sanskrit ṛ is a vowel r and the ddh is a doubled aspirated retroflex; English produces neither and settles on a plain d.
Nicknames for Riddhi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200734 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4380reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −24.1%22 in 2025, from 29
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Riddhi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ऋद्धि in Sanskrit — related form
- ऋद्धि in Hindi — transliteration
- ઋદ્ધિ in Gujarati — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Riddhis among us
people named Riddhi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Riddhi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Riddhi
- #5554
- Riddhi on the 2025 chart
- #917
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Riddhi went to 22 girls in 2025, but Ridhi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 43, which makes it the 917th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,637 places above the chart.
- Riddhi22
- Ridhi21
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Riddhi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Misa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Riddhi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Misa climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Misa's path sketches the road Riddhi is walking now.
Riddhi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Riddhi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Riddhi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, concrete and pleasant.
- Six letters and two syllables keep it compact.
- It has a documented place in Hindu tradition.
- The consonant cluster is unusual in English and will be simplified.
- Riddhi, Ridhi and Rhiddhi are all in transliteration use.
- It is unfamiliar outside Indian communities.
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Frequently asked
- How many Riddhis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Riddhi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Riddhi?
- Riddhi is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 43 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ridhi.
- How popular is the name Riddhi in 2025?
- Riddhi ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Riddhi?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Riddhi — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Riddhi with classmates?
- Riddhi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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