About the name Rishi
Rishi belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Rishi first appears in Social Security records in 1974. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #938 in 2008, and in 2024 193 babies received the name — 4,934 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.