Riku
Riku is a boy name of Japanese origin, ranked #95 in popularity, meaning Land; sky.
What Riku means
Land; sky.
Riku is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Riku comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Riku is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Riku?
Riku is ranked #95, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Riku
Two ideas meet in Riku: Earth and Sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Riku
These share Riku's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daichi — Great land; great wisdom.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
- Noboru — To rise, to ascend.
- Sho — To soar, to fly; to prosper.
- Sora — Sky.
- Buraun — Cloud.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Dimitri — Follower of Demeter; of the earth.
- Rayan — Gates of heaven; lush.
- Ridge — From the mountain crest.