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Riad

Boys' name

Meadows, gardens

Riad has been given to 231 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2009, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Riad, 2024

1 in 371,000

Riad over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riad: meaning, origin, and history

Meadows, gardens

Arabic

What Riad means

Riad means “meadows, gardens”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Riad is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ri.ˈjaːdˤ/ for Riad.

Origin, language, and formation

Riad is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Riad is pronounced /ʁjad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 231 boys were recorded with the name Riad between 1973 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2009; its best national rank was #5,320 in 1975.

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 Riad?

Riad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riad was born before 2009 — so the typical Riad is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
231
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Riad 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (13)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,320
1975

Spellings of Riad

Riad is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 32.6% against Riad's <0.01%.

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.

Riad around the world

Where Riad 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
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #1,220
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Riad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,320
1975
Peak year
2009
13 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
231
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Riad

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

RiazZiadRiaanRianRialRiamLiadRiahEliadRianshEiadRianeAviad

Sibling names for Riad

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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