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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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.
Where Riot is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#227 · 1 in 753
- Utah#409 · 1 in 1,788
- Oklahoma#552 · 1 in 2,526
- Missouri#597 · 1 in 3,090
- Arizona#720 · 1 in 4,090
Best ever in a state: #227 in Montana, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Montana | #227 | 5 | 1 in 753 |
| Utah | #409 | 11 | 1 in 1,788 |
| Oklahoma | #552 | 7 | 1 in 2,526 |
| Missouri | #597 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Arizona | #720 | 8 | 1 in 4,090 |
| Ohio | #855 | 9 | 1 in 5,837 |
| Washington | #999 | 5 | 1 in 6,560 |
| California | #1,085 | 19 | 1 in 9,235 |
| Texas | #1,217 | 17 | 1 in 10,297 |
| Florida | #1,353 | 8 | 1 in 11,942 |
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See more about Riot
- 20 spots since 2024 (#1,243 → #1,263)
- 586 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #1,263)
- 949 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #1,263)
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2024 at #1,243 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 53.8% of all boys named Riot (697) were born in this decade
- 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.
Riot in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 76,537 of them was named Riot, which outranked 66.9% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #5,554Zenovia22
- #5,554Zuleyma22
- #5,554Zyalani22
- #5,722Riot21
- #5,722Aaleyah21
- #5,722Aariya21
- #5,722Abbey21
- #5,917Adrianne20
- #5,917Ahmani20
- #5,917Aidel20
Tied with 194 names at #5,722; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 10,949 of them was named Riot, which outranked 90.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).