Riyadh
#13,482 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riyadh has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #13,482 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Riyadh, 2025
1 in 663,000
Riyadh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Riyadh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,482
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riyadh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riyadh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Riyadhs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riyadh was born before 2009 — so the typical Riyadh is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 63
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Riyadh 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 1991 (13)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Riyadh
Riyadh is not the most common spelling — Riyan is, with 40.2% against Riyadh's 2.2%.
Riyadh around the world
Where Riyadh 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 & Wales2000–2025#5,137in 2025
- France1989–2025#4,873in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Riyadh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Riyadh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riyadh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.