Most Googled WWE Superstars Worldwide in the Third Week of October 2026

Roman Reigns was the most googled WWE Superstar in the world again this week. With Street Fighter in theaters and a big night on Raw, it was never close. The bigger story is what happened behind him.

Here are the quick takeaways from October 15 to October 21, 2026:

• Roman Reigns finished first for the third straight week.
• Cody Rhodes jumped from fifth to second.
• Rhea Ripley took back the top spot among women and finished fifth overall.
• Liv Morgan, second overall last week, dropped to ninth.
• Paige, Sami Zayn, R-Truth and Nikki Bella entered the top 15.

What this week covered

The tracking period ran from Thursday, October 15 to Wednesday, October 21. Three things drove most of the searches in that window.

• The Street Fighter movie opened in theaters on October 16, with Roman Reigns as Akuma and Cody Rhodes as Guile. It finished first at the North American box office in its opening weekend.
• SmackDown from Sacramento on October 16 had Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton brawling, an injury scare for R-Truth and Paige beating Nikki Bella.
• Raw from San Diego on October 19 had Roman Reigns face to face with Undisputed WWE Champion Sami Zayn ahead of their Champion vs. Champion match at Crown Jewel on November 7. Rey Mysterio challenged Chad Gable for the Intercontinental Championship, Penta beat Bron Breakker and Lola Vice beat Lyra Valkyria with help from Bayley.

How we built this ranking

Google Trends does not show how many times a name was searched. It shows relative interest on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 is the highest point for the most searched name in that comparison. It also allows only eight names in one comparison, so ranking a full roster takes careful work.

This is the process we followed:

• We started with every Superstar listed on WWE.com under Raw, SmackDown and Free Agents. Commentators, announcers, authority figures and on-screen managers were left out, along with NXT talent and legends. That left 113 Superstars.
• Where Google had a profile for the wrestler, we used it instead of a plain name search. This counts different spellings together and keeps out unrelated people with the same name. For example, Penta is measured as the Mexican wrestler, not as a word.
• We compared the roster in sets of eight names. When a name scored lower than the others, it was moved into the next set, and the comparisons were repeated until every set was in the right order.
• The sets were then linked together. The No. 8 name of Set 1 became the No. 1 name of Set 2, the No. 8 name of Set 2 became the No. 1 name of Set 3, and so on. Because one name is shared between every two sets, all 113 Superstars end up on one scale. Set 1 started with Roman Reigns.
• The women's ranking was built the same way as its own chain of sets, starting with Rhea Ripley.
• Close calls were checked again head to head. CM Punk vs. Stephanie Vaquer, Paige vs. Penta, Seth Rollins vs. Jey Uso and Charlotte Flair vs. Naomi were all rechecked one on one.
• To explain the movement, we looked at each Superstar's day-by-day search graph and matched the biggest jumps with what happened on that day.

Two smaller details made a difference. Google treats El Grande Americano, Rayo Americano and Bravo Americano as the same person as the wrestler behind each character, so we measured those three by name instead. And because Google Trends shifts dates based on the viewer's time zone, we counted every day in UTC so that the data starts exactly on October 15 and not a day earlier. In UTC, the searches from SmackDown night show up on October 17, and the searches from Raw night show up on October 20.

In the overall list, each score shows search interest compared with Roman Reigns, who is set at 100. In the women's list, the score is compared with Rhea Ripley, who is set at 100. A score of 50 means about half as much search interest as the baseline over the week.

Top 15 Most Googled WWE Superstars Worldwide (October 15 to 21)

1. Roman Reigns (100)

2. Cody Rhodes (50.1)

3. Logan Paul (38.1)

4. Rey Mysterio (31.2)

5. Rhea Ripley (27.7)

6. Randy Orton (25.3)

7. Stephanie Vaquer (23.7)

8. CM Punk (23.2)

9. Liv Morgan (22.9)

10. Paige (21.1)

11. Penta (20.8)

12. Sami Zayn (16.2)

13. R-Truth (15.2)

14. Nikki Bella (14.7)

15. Seth Rollins (13.3)

Just missed out: Jey Uso (12.8) and Oba Femi (12.3).

Roman Reigns is in a league of his own right now. He drew twice as much search interest as anyone else on the roster. His searches stayed high every single day of the week, which is what you would expect with a movie in theaters, a return to Raw and an official Crown Jewel match against Sami Zayn all landing in the same seven days.

Cody Rhodes made the biggest jump inside the top five, from fifth to second. He had two clear spikes. The first came the day Street Fighter opened and he brawled with Randy Orton on SmackDown. The second came after Raw. Orton's own searches peaked on that same SmackDown night, which helped him climb from 13th to sixth.

Logan Paul stayed in third without any one big day. His searches were flat all week. Keep in mind that his number includes searches about his YouTube, boxing and business life, not just WWE, which is one reason he ranks high almost every week.

Rey Mysterio moved from ninth to fourth. His search interest nearly doubled the day after his Intercontinental Championship match on Raw.

The tightest race in the top 10 was between Stephanie Vaquer and CM Punk. Only about one percent separated them. We checked them head to head and Vaquer stayed ahead every time, so she takes seventh. Paige and Penta were almost as close for 10th, with Paige ahead by roughly one and a half percent.

Liv Morgan had the biggest fall in the top 10, from second to ninth. That is a normal pattern after a title win. Her searches were highest at the start of the week, right after she won the Women's World Championship at Money in the Bank, and slowly came down from there. Penta also slipped from third to 11th, even though his searches jumped after his win over Bron Breakker on Raw.

R-Truth had the biggest single-day spike of anyone in the top 15. His searches went up more than fifteen times on SmackDown night, after his match with Damian Priest was stopped by the referee when he appeared to be hurt. He later posted that he was okay.

Sami Zayn entered the top 15 at 12th, and almost all of that came from one night. His searches jumped about five times after his face-off with Reigns on Raw. With their Crown Jewel match now official, expect him to keep climbing over the next two weeks.

Dropping out of the top 15 were LA Knight, who was sixth last week, Tiffany Stratton, Oba Femi and Jey Uso.

Top 15 Most Googled WWE Women Superstars Worldwide (October 15 to 21)

1. Rhea Ripley (100)

2. Stephanie Vaquer (82.3)

3. Liv Morgan (80.9)

4. Paige (73.4)

5. Nikki Bella (53.8)

6. Asuka (38.9)

7. Alexa Bliss (37.3)

8. Tiffany Stratton (36.6)

9. Lola Vice (30.6)

T10. Charlotte Flair (28.5)

T10. Naomi (28.5)

12. Chelsea Green (27.1)

13. Bayley (26.3)

14. Jaida Parker (23.5)

15. AJ Lee (22.6)

Just missed out: Becky Lynch (22.3) and Roxanne Perez (20.6).

Rhea Ripley is back at No. 1 after finishing second to Liv Morgan last week. She did not have one big day. She was simply searched steadily all week. Stephanie Vaquer and Liv Morgan were close behind her, both with more than 80 percent of Ripley's search interest.

Stephanie Vaquer had the biggest single day of any woman in the top three. Her searches more than tripled on October 19, a day with no WWE television. It came days after an ankle injury at Money in the Bank and while photos she posted from Hawaii were going viral, but we could not tie the spike to one clear moment.

Paige moved up from eighth to fourth, and Nikki Bella climbed from 10th to fifth. Both peaked on the same night, when Paige beat Nikki on SmackDown.

Alexa Bliss also had her best day on SmackDown night, when she and Tatum Paxley celebrated their title win and ended up brawling with Fatal Influence.

Lola Vice and Bayley both hit their highest point of the week after Raw, where Bayley's distraction helped Lola Vice beat Lyra Valkyria. Lola's searches went up about eight times in one day, which carried her into the top 10.

Charlotte Flair and Naomi finished in a genuine tie for 10th. When we compared them head to head, they came out exactly level, so they share the spot.

AJ Lee edged Becky Lynch for the final place in the top 15 by a very small margin.

Lola Vice, Bayley and AJ Lee entered the women's top 15. Roxanne Perez and Tatum Paxley, who both broke into the overall top 10 last week, dropped out.

What to watch next week

The road to Crown Jewel is now the main storyline in WWE. Roman Reigns vs. Sami Zayn is set, and Liv Morgan will face the WWE Women's Champion in the women's Champion vs. Champion match. Street Fighter is also still in theaters, so Reigns and Rhodes should stay near the top. If Sami Zayn keeps climbing, it will show that fans are buying into the build.

Final notes

These rankings show relative search interest, not total searches. A No. 1 spot means more people searched for that Superstar than for anyone else on the active Raw and SmackDown roster during the week. Google Trends uses samples of search data, so names separated by only a percent or two can swap places on a different day. Where two names were too close to separate, we listed them as tied.

You can follow the weekly numbers on our Trends Tracker and check back next week for the final week of October.