Riftyn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riftyn has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2021. 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 2023, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Riftyn, 2023
1 in 184,000
Riftyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Riftyn?
Riftyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 95,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,647 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riftyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 127,647 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riftyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Riftyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riftyn was born before 2023 — so the typical Riftyn is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Riftyn 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
- —
- 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 2023 (18)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Riftyn
Riftyn is not the most common spelling — Tristyn is, with 74.5% against Riftyn's 0.90%.
Riftyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Riftyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riftyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.