Rihanna

#2,139 for girls in 2025, 87 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2008 · 1,075 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,612
since 2000

Rihanna over time

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Rank among girls' names. Rihanna has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #311, 2008girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#2,13987
2024#1,753115
2023#1,361165
2022#1,659127
2021#1,577133
2020#1,485144
2019#1,642129
2018#1,360166
2017#1,409162
2016#1,330178
2015#1,329178
2014#1,173209
2013#938269
2012#831323
2011#724381
2010#587500
2009#389825
2008#3111,075#12,5535
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First appearance
2000

The first year at least five girls were named Rihanna! It came in at #13,154, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2001–2004, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 386 spots since 2024 (#1,753#2,139)
  • 654 spots since 2020 (#1,485#2,139)
  • 810 spots since 2015 (#1,329#2,139)
  • Biggest jump: 1,747 spots in 2006 (#2,278#531)
  • Biggest drop: 235 spots in 2014 (#938#1,173)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2000
  • Peaked 2008 at #311 (1,075 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2006–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,759
  • Highest: 1 in 1,759 girls born in 2008 were named Rihanna (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,474 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 50.6% of all girls named Rihanna (3,346) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s3,346#311 (2008)#2,846
2010s2,495#587 (2010)#1,132
2020s771#1,361 (2023)#1,662

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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