Rya
#1,522 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rya has been given to 1,928 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,522 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 190 recorded.
Babies named Rya, 2025
1 in 23,700
Rya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 23,700
- 140 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,522
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 16,415 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rya 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 16,415 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ryas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rya was born before 2016 — so the typical Rya is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 42.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,909
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (802).
Is Rya 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
- −286
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,915
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,157
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.7%
- Peak was 2024 (190)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Where Rya is used
Across 2016–2025, Rya was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 21,721 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
- 2California1 in 14,286
- 3Arizona1 in 16,667
- 4Colorado1 in 16,667
- 5Florida1 in 16,667
- 6Michigan1 in 20,000
- 7Missouri1 in 20,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 20,000
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.
Rya around the world
Where Rya 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 & Wales1997–2025#1,892in 2025
- Scotland2022–2024#476in 2024
- Canada2000–2024#1,191in 2024
- South Australia1995–2001#711in 2001
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.
Rya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Rya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.