Riyah

#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 91 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
869
since 1998

Riyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Riyah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998girlsat peak
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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#2,48571
2024#2,38976
2023#2,10791
2022#2,57968
2021#2,67464
2020#3,60741
2019#3,49944
2018#3,43845
2017#4,06636
2016#3,70741
2015#4,06936
2014#5,02527
2013#5,01327
2012#4,21635
2011#3,78140
2010#5,97722
2009#6,09122
2008#6,79919
2007#7,09218
2006#7,14217
2005#11,8348
2004#9,89210
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First appearance
1998

The first year at least five girls were named Riyah! It came in at #14,122, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2001, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Riyah is popular in 1998

No state had 5 or more girls named Riyah in 1998, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Riyah
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 96 spots since 2024 (#2,389 → #2,485)
  • 1,122 spots since 2020 (#3,607 → #2,485)
  • 1,584 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #2,485)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1998
  • Peaked 2023 at #2,107 (91 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,633
  • Highest: 1 in 17,633 girls born in 2023 were named Riyah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 47.3% of all girls named Riyah (411) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s5#14,122 (1998)#14,122
2000s100#6,091 (2009)#8,921
2010s353#3,438 (2018)#4,279
2020s411#2,107 (2023)#2,640

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.

Riyah in 1998

girls
#14,122
5 births · 1 in 353,390 girls

Top girls' names in 1998

  1. #1Emily26,188
  2. #2Hannah21,376
  3. #3Samantha20,195
  4. #4Sarah19,898
  5. #5Ashley19,875
  6. #6Alexis19,778
  7. #7Taylor18,576
  8. #8Jessica18,239
  9. #9Madison17,787
  10. #10Elizabeth15,193
  11. #14,122Riyah5
More about 1998

girls

1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Riyah, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Riyah
  1. #12,426Zykira6
  2. #12,426Zykiria6
  3. #12,426Zyra6
  4. #14,122Riyah5
  5. #14,122Aaleah5
  6. #14,122Aamina5
  7. #14,122Aanisah5

Tied with 2,479 names at #14,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,123Calista#2,820 → #697
  2. ↑ 1,165Ireland#1,983 → #818
  3. ↑ 1,158Abril#2,116 → #958
  4. ↑ 755Mya#993 → #238
  5. ↑ 619Ally#1,036 → #417
Fallers
  1. ↓ 586Yulissa#424 → #1,010
  2. ↓ 462Moesha#943 → #1,405
  3. ↓ 397Yulisa#985 → #1,382
  4. ↓ 376Tonya#905 → #1,281
  5. ↓ 347Xena#765 → #1,112

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

See the top 100 for 1998 →