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Riva

#3,696 in 2025Girls' name

Girl, maiden

Riva has been given to 1,619 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #3,696 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Riva, 2025

1 in 80,900

Riva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riva: meaning, origin, and history

Girl, maiden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Riva means

Riva means “girl, maiden”.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Riva → Rivka → רִבְקָה. The family’s meaning is “to join, couple, tie”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements r-b-q.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rivka.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,619 girls were recorded with the name Riva between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,006 in 1953.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,629 in 2020 to #3,696 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,988 in 2015 to #3,696 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 Riva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,696
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riva 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rivas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riva was born before 1991 — so the typical Riva is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,460
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Riva 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
−533
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+933
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,292
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.9%
Peak was 2023 (57)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,006
1953

Spellings of Riva

Riva is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 19.6% against Riva's 0.03%.

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 Riva is used

Across 1910–2025, Riva was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 165,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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

Riva around the world

Where Riva 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
    #807
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2020
    #544
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2015–2025
    #5,278
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #536
    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.

Riva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,696
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 933
Best rank ever
#2,006
1953
Peak year
2023
57 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,619
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Riva

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

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Sibling names for Riva

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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