Rihanna

Where Rihanna comes from

From Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rihanna
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Rihanna through the years
  1. 2000
    First appearance
    #13,154 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2005
    Around this time: Music of the Sun by Rihanna
    Album, 2005 · Source
  3. 2008
    Peak, #311
    1,075 babies named Rihanna, the most in any year.
  4. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #587.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Rihanna in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.