Riviera

#8,245 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Riviera has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #8,245 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Riviera, 2025

1 in 255,000

Riviera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,245
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riviera 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riviera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rivieras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riviera was born before 2020 — so the typical Riviera is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
129
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2020s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Riviera 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
−1,370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,672
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
76.5%
Peak was 2024 (17)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,875
2024

Spellings of Riviera

Riviera is not the most common spelling — River is, with 92.5% against Riviera's 0.61%.

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 Riviera is used

Across 1910–2025, Riviera was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Riviera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Riviera around the world

Where Riviera 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
    2012–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Riviera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,245
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,672
Best rank ever
#6,875
2024
Peak year
2024
17 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
13

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Sibling names for Riviera

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