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
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 1,075 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,612since 2000
Rihanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Rihanna has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,139 | 87 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,753 | 115 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,361 | 165 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,659 | 127 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,577 | 133 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,485 | 144 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 129 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,360 | 166 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,409 | 162 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,330 | 178 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,329 | 178 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,173 | 209 | — | |
| 2013 | #938 | 269 | — | |
| 2012 | #831 | 323 | — | |
| 2011 | #724 | 381 | — | |
| 2010 | #587 | 500 | — | |
| 2009 | #389 | 825 | — | |
| 2008 | #311 | 1,075 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #414 | 789 | — | |
| 2006 | #531 | 572 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,278 | 79 | — | |
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| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
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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.
Where Rihanna is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#201 · 1 in 784
- Florida#214 · 1 in 1,042
- Alabama#218 · 1 in 953
- Louisiana#248 · 1 in 1,033
- Connecticut#252 · 1 in 1,051
Best ever in a state: #136 in District of Columbia, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #201 | 15 | 1 in 784 |
| Florida | #214 | 79 | 1 in 1,042 |
| Alabama | #218 | 21 | 1 in 953 |
| Louisiana | #248 | 20 | 1 in 1,033 |
| Connecticut | #252 | 12 | 1 in 1,051 |
| New York | #269 | 70 | 1 in 1,354 |
| North Carolina | #273 | 37 | 1 in 1,255 |
| Nebraska | #288 | 8 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Arkansas | #301 | 10 | 1 in 1,180 |
| Illinois | #315 | 42 | 1 in 1,506 |
| Nevada | #317 | 9 | 1 in 1,274 |
| South Carolina | #320 | 14 | 1 in 1,325 |
| Tennessee | #352 | 19 | 1 in 1,606 |
| Georgia | #356 | 31 | 1 in 1,636 |
| New Jersey | #370 | 21 | 1 in 1,825 |
| Texas | #375 | 91 | 1 in 1,832 |
| Massachusetts | #415 | 13 | 1 in 2,019 |
| Virginia | #422 | 18 | 1 in 2,039 |
| Missouri | #437 | 13 | 1 in 2,155 |
| Ohio | #444 | 23 | 1 in 2,367 |
| New Mexico | #449 | 5 | 1 in 1,604 |
| California | #454 | 92 | 1 in 2,373 |
| Pennsylvania | #471 | 22 | 1 in 2,483 |
| Michigan | #479 | 17 | 1 in 2,514 |
| Wisconsin | #492 | 10 | 1 in 2,451 |
| Washington | #501 | 14 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Colorado | #523 | 10 | 1 in 2,384 |
| Indiana | #532 | 12 | 1 in 2,642 |
| Arizona | #533 | 14 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Kentucky | #604 | 6 | 1 in 3,214 |
| Utah | #671 | 6 | 1 in 3,174 |
| Maryland | #679 | 7 | 1 in 3,531 |
| Minnesota | #735 | 6 | 1 in 4,132 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rihanna
- 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)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2008 at #311 (1,075 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2006–2013
- 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%)
- 50.6% of all girls named Rihanna (3,346) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,346 | #311 (2008) | #2,846 |
| 2010s | 2,495 | #587 (2010) | #1,132 |
| 2020s | 771 | #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.
Rihanna in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 2,227 of them was named Rihanna, which outranked 98.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.