Riya

#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births

Peak · girls
2005 · 291 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,273
since 1990

Riya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Riya has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990peak #871, 2005girls
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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
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,540137
2024#1,275182
2023#1,098223
2022#1,130217
2021#1,160211
2020#1,271176
2019#1,203194
2018#1,080235
2017#990262
2016#978274
2015#1,121228
2014#966276
2013#1,008247
2012#988255
2011#965265
2010#904289
2009#969274
2008#991268
2007#1,012262
2006#952274
2005#871291
2004#965248
2003#1,075206
2002#954234
2001#1,250158
2000#1,456126
1999#1,80488
1998#2,42957
1997#2,87442
1996#4,45323
1995#6,25714
1994#11,7786
1993#10,5887
1992#11,7386
1991#7,43011
1990#10,1937
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five girls were named Riya! It came in at #10,193, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1992–1994, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Riya is popular in 1990

No state had 5 or more girls named Riya in 1990, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Riya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 265 spots since 2024 (#1,275 → #1,540)
  • 269 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #1,540)
  • 419 spots since 2015 (#1,121 → #1,540)
  • Biggest jump: 296 spots in 2002 (#1,250 → #954)
  • Biggest drop: 155 spots in 2015 (#966 → #1,121)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2005 at #871 (291 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 20 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2008–2012
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,151
  • Highest: 1 in 6,151 girls born in 2010 were named Riya (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #871 in 2005, was only 1 in 6,350 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.3% of all girls named Riya (2,525) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s261#1,804 (1999)#6,954
2000s2,341#871 (2005)#1,050
2010s2,525#904 (2010)#1,020
2020s1,146#1,098 (2023)#1,246

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.

Riya in 1990

girls
#10,193
7 births · 1 in 271,221 girls

Top girls' names in 1990

  1. #1Jessica46,486
  2. #2Ashley45,561
  3. #3Brittany36,536
  4. #4Amanda34,413
  5. #5Samantha25,868
  6. #6Sarah25,824
  7. #7Stephanie24,864
  8. #8Jennifer22,236
  9. #9Elizabeth20,750
  10. #10Lauren20,506
  11. #10,193Riya7
More about 1990

girls

1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 271,221 of them was named Riya, which outranked 33.1% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Riya
  1. #9,247Zenani8
  2. #9,247Zohra8
  3. #9,247Zora8
  4. #10,193Riya7
  5. #10,193Abaigeal7
  6. #10,193Abel7
  7. #10,193Abeni7
  8. #11,409Aariel6
  9. #11,409Aarion6
  10. #11,409Abagael6

Tied with 1,215 names at #10,193; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,592Alannah#6,531 → #939
  2. ↑ 1,178Symone#1,998 → #820
  3. ↑ 869Shelbi#1,750 → #881
  4. ↑ 831Latifah#1,532 → #701
  5. ↑ 828Skyler#1,564 → #736
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,554Elizabet#524 → #3,078
  2. ↓ 1,572Katherin#717 → #2,289
  3. ↓ 652Stephani#390 → #1,042
  4. ↓ 504Ashanti#893 → #1,397
  5. ↓ 416Audrianna#759 → #1,175

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1990 →