Riaan
- #1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 262 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,846since 2009
Riaan over time
Rank among boys' names. Riaan has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,753 | 92 |
| 2024 | #1,921 | 82 |
| 2023 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2022 | #1,516 | 119 |
| 2021 | #1,135 | 179 |
| 2020 | #1,053 | 190 |
| 2019 | #1,354 | 132 |
| 2018 | #1,305 | 139 |
| 2017 | #1,276 | 142 |
| 2016 | #861 | 262 |
| 2015 | #929 | 229 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Riaan! It came in at #12,491, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2009, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Riaan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#829 · 1 in 5,681
- California#988 · 1 in 7,976
- Pennsylvania#1,004 · 1 in 7,466
- New York#1,202 · 1 in 9,380
- Ohio#1,267 · 1 in 10,507
Best ever in a state: #300 in Connecticut, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #829 | 7 | 1 in 5,681 |
| California | #988 | 22 | 1 in 7,976 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,004 | 7 | 1 in 7,466 |
| New York | #1,202 | 9 | 1 in 9,380 |
| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
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See more about Riaan
- 168 spots since 2024 (#1,921 → #1,753)
- 700 spots since 2020 (#1,053 → #1,753)
- Biggest jump: 1,348 spots in 2015
- Biggest drop: 415 spots in 2017
- Debuted 2009
- Peaked 2016 at #861 (262 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2015–2016
- Highest: 1 in 7,243 boys born in 2016 were named Riaan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 57.0% of all boys named Riaan (1,053) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | #12,491 (2009) | #12,491 |
| 2010s | 1,053 | #861 (2016) | #2,811 |
| 2020s | 788 | #1,053 (2020) | #1,470 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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