Riyah
#2,507 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riyah has been given to 869 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,507 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Riyah, 2025
1 in 46,700
Riyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Riyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 46,700
- 71 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 22,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,507
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 32,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riyah 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 32,366 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Riyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riyah was born before 2019 — so the typical Riyah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 47.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 869
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (411).
Is Riyah 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
- −100
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,159
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,624
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.97×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 78.0%
- Peak was 2023 (91)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Riyah
Riyah is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 39.5% against Riyah's 0.12%.
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 Riyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Riyah was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 46,286 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Riyah around the world
Where Riyah 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 & Wales1999–2025#3,333in 2025
- Canada2019–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Riyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Riyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.