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Riya

#1,546 in 2025Girls' name

Singer

Riya has been given to 6,273 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,546 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 291 recorded.

Babies named Riya, 2025

1 in 24,200

Riya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Riya: meaning, origin, and history

Singer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Riya means

Riya means “singer”.

Origin, language, and formation

Riya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,273 girls were recorded with the name Riya between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 291 in 2005; its best national rank was #872 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,274 in 2020 to #1,546 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,122 in 2015 to #1,546 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 Riya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,200
137 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,546
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,774 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Riya 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,774 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Riyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Riya was born before 2011 — so the typical Riya is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,273
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (2,525).

Is Riya 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
−269
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−272
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−424
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 2005 (291)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#872
2005

Spellings of Riya

Riya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 21.1% against Riya's 0.14%.

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 Riya is used

Across 2016–2025, Riya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,500 girls, against 1 in 6,563 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 25,000).

440 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,500
  2. 2Washington1 in 4,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 5,263
  5. 5Georgia1 in 5,556
  6. 6Virginia1 in 5,556
  7. 7Maryland1 in 5,882
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 5,882

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.

Riya around the world

Where Riya 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
    #763
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    2008–2025
    #4,418
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2013
    #328
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Riya

People whose public names include Riya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Riya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,546
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 272
Best rank ever
#872
2005
Peak year
2005
291 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,273
Count in 2025
137

Names similar to Riya

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

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Names with a curve like Riya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Riya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Riya

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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