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Ria

#2,346 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Ria has been given to 4,115 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #2,346 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 202 recorded.

Babies named Ria, 2025

1 in 42,500

Ria over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ria: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ria means

Ria belongs to the name family reached through Ria → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ria is used in English and Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ria is pronounced /riːə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,115 girls were recorded with the name Ria between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 202 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,150 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,237 in 2020 to #2,346 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,232 in 2015 to #2,346 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ria?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,346
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ria 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ria was born before 2006 — so the typical Ria is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,063
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (1,488).

Is Ria 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
+159
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−109
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−114
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 2005 (202)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,150
2005

Where Ria is used

Across 2016–2025, Ria was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 18,360 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4Washington1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arizona1 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.

Ria around the world

Where Ria 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
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2025
    #161
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1981–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ria

People whose public names include Ria, 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.

Ria in other languages

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

AriaBriaRaiaArriaEleftheriaRiia

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

Ria by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,346
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 109
Best rank ever
#1,150
2005
Peak year
2005
202 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,115
Count in 2025
78

Names similar to Ria

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

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Names with a curve like Ria

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

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Sibling names for Ria

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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