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Rhianna

#6,500 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly basil; myrtle

Rhianna has been given to 5,774 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #6,500 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 495 recorded.

Babies named Rhianna, 2025

1 in 184,000

Rhianna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rhianna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly basil; myrtle

Arabic

What Rhianna means

Rhianna may mean “basil; myrtle”, associated with rayḥān.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A variant spelling of Rihanna, from Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)). This spelling possibly influenced by unrelated Welsh names such as Rhiannon.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rhianna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Rhianna is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Rhianna comes through Arabic رَيْحَانَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rihanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,774 girls were recorded with the name Rhianna between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 495 in 2007; its best national rank was #607 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,156 in 2020 to #6,500 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,129 in 2015 to #6,500 in 2025.

How common is Rhianna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,500
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rhianna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhianna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhiannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhianna was born before 2002 — so the typical Rhianna is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,774
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (2,634).

Is Rhianna 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
+1,018
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+656
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,371
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 2007 (495)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#607
2007

Spellings of Rhianna

Rhianna is not the most common spelling — Brianna is, with 34.2% against Rhianna's 0.75%.

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 Rhianna is used

Across 1910–2025, Rhianna was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 44,077 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 16,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3Colorado1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 33,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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. Rhianna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rhianna around the world

Where Rhianna 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2010
    #324
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1997–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    2011–2012
    #6,852
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rhianna

People whose public names include Rhianna, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rhianna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rhianna. Linked forms have their own page here.

RhianRhianaRiannaRihanaRihanna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rhianna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,500
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 656
Best rank ever
#607
2007
Peak year
2007
495 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,774
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Rhianna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AliannaBreonnaRihannaBrionnaCorinnaAiyannaLeeannaDayannaKeyonnaRhiannonAryannaMadonnaKeyannaSuzannaAviannaJovannaRoseannaTatiannaReannaIyannaGiavannaElliannaRoxannaArionna

Names with a curve like Rhianna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rhianna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YahairaMarlenNataliEvelinTatiannaJulisaJackelynAlexsandraJackelineJasmynNehaVanesa

Sibling names for Rhianna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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