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Riaz

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Riad

Riaz has been given to 121 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 2001, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Riaz, 2024

1 in 418,000

Riaz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riaz: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Riad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Riaz means

Riaz is a alternate transcription of Riad.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Riaz is used in Arabic.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Riaz → Riad. The family’s meaning is “meadows, gardens”, recorded in the naming reference for Riad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Riad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 121 boys were recorded with the name Riaz between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,163 in 1984.

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.

How common is Riaz?

Riaz 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 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riaz 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riazs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riaz was born before 2004 — so the typical Riaz is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
121
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Riaz 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 2001 (10)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,163
1984

Spellings of Riaz

Riaz is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 37.0% against Riaz'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.

Riaz around the world

Where Riaz 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–1976
    #294
    in 1976
  • France
    1980–1986
    #2,221
    in 1986
  • Canada
    2008–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1980–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Riaz 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
#6,163
1984
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
121
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Riaz

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

RiadRialDiazRiamRiahEliazRiaanAmiazRianRianshRianeImtiazNiazAliazTobiazIzaiaz

Sibling names for Riaz

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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