Riya
#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 291 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,273since 1990
Riya over time
Rank among girls' names. Riya has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,540 | 137 |
| 2024 | #1,275 | 182 |
| 2023 | #1,098 | 223 |
| 2022 | #1,130 | 217 |
| 2021 | #1,160 | 211 |
| 2020 | #1,271 | 176 |
| 2019 | #1,203 | 194 |
| 2018 | #1,080 | 235 |
| 2017 | #990 | 262 |
| 2016 | #978 | 274 |
| 2015 | #1,121 | 228 |
| 2014 | #966 | 276 |
| 2013 | #1,008 | 247 |
| 2012 | #988 | 255 |
| 2011 | #965 | 265 |
| 2010 | #904 | 289 |
| 2009 | #969 | 274 |
| 2008 | #991 | 268 |
| 2007 | #1,012 | 262 |
| 2006 | #952 | 274 |
| 2005 | #871 | 291 |
| 2004 | #965 | 248 |
| 2003 | #1,075 | 206 |
| 2002 | #954 | 234 |
| 2001 | #1,250 | 158 |
| 2000 | #1,456 | 126 |
| 1999 | #1,804 | 88 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
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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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#257 · 1 in 1,160
- Massachusetts#492 · 1 in 2,539
- Maryland#527 · 1 in 2,431
- Illinois#551 · 1 in 2,808
- North Carolina#708 · 1 in 3,760
Best ever in a state: #164 in New Jersey, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #257 | 32 | 1 in 1,160 |
| Massachusetts | #492 | 10 | 1 in 2,539 |
| Maryland | #527 | 10 | 1 in 2,431 |
| Illinois | #551 | 21 | 1 in 2,808 |
| North Carolina | #708 | 12 | 1 in 3,760 |
| Minnesota | #753 | 6 | 1 in 4,115 |
| California | #795 | 44 | 1 in 4,765 |
| Ohio | #822 | 11 | 1 in 4,813 |
| Arizona | #871 | 7 | 1 in 4,529 |
| Georgia | #874 | 10 | 1 in 4,820 |
| Michigan | #887 | 8 | 1 in 5,272 |
| New York | #901 | 18 | 1 in 5,136 |
| Virginia | #908 | 7 | 1 in 5,331 |
| Colorado | #924 | 5 | 1 in 4,648 |
| Washington | #962 | 6 | 1 in 5,233 |
| Texas | #1,178 | 22 | 1 in 7,581 |
| Florida | #1,428 | 8 | 1 in 10,466 |
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See more about Riya
- 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)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2005 at #871 (291 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2008–2012
- 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
- 40.3% of all girls named Riya (2,525) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 261 | #1,804 (1999) | #6,954 |
| 2000s | 2,341 | #871 (2005) | #1,050 |
| 2010s | 2,525 | #904 (2010) | #1,020 |
| 2020s | 1,146 | #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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 6,472 of them was named Riya, which outranked 95.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #962Gwen278
- #962Julieta278
- #965Carlie277
- #966Riya276
- #966Abrielle276
- #966Bryn276
- #966Lesly276
- #970Moriah275
- #970Pyper275
- #972Alaysia274
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.