Riot
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #1,263 for boys in 2025, 156 births
Given to boys 85.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 159 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,295since 2007
Riot over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #5,722 | 21 | #1,263 | 156 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #1,243 | 159 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #1,607 | 109 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,920 | 77 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #1,975 | 73 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #2,212 | 61 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #2,205 | 61 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #2,326 | 55 |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,517 | 21 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
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First appearance
2007
The first year at least five boys were named Riot! It came in at #8,173, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007–2008, when fewer than 14 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 20 spots since 2024 (#1,243 → #1,263)
- 586 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #1,263)
- 949 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #1,263)
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2024 at #1,243 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,836
- Highest: 1 in 10,836 boys born in 2024 were named Riot (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,949 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 53.8% of all boys named Riot (697) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 44 | #4,429 (2009) | #6,332 |
| 2010s | 554 | #1,899 (2019) | #2,545 |
| 2020s | 697 | #1,243 (2024) | #1,566 |
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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