Radiah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Radiah has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Radiah, 1979
1 in 554,000
Radiah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Radiah?
Radiah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1979
- 1 in 554,000
- 6 of 3,326,731 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1979
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 384,320 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Radiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 384,320 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Radiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Radiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Radiah was born before 1974 — so the typical Radiah is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (108).
Is Radiah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1974 (42)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 165.7% average annual change
Spellings of Radiah
Radiah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 39.9% against Radiah's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Radiah is used
Across 1910–2025, Radiah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,606,490 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Radiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Radiah around the world
Where Radiah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1975–1977#2,397in 1977
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Radiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Radiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Radiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.