Rhianna
Rhianna was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,500 among girls’ names; 5,774 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,680 Americans named Rhianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rhianna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rhianna is “a female given name from Arabic, variant of Rihanna.” Its etymology gives the sense “basil; myrtle” (رَيْحَان).
A variant spelling of Rihanna, from Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)). This spelling possibly influenced by unrelated Welsh names such as Rhiannon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rhianna?
#6,500 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhianna fell from #4,129 in 2015 to #6,500 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 11.2 per million.
495 babies in 2007, the peak
Rhianna peaked in 2007, when 495 girls were given it, #607 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,500 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,518 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,870 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,163 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,878 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,156 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,953 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,685 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,023 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,819 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,129 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,310 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,966 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,560 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 257 | #1,021 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 393 | #753 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 495 | #607 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 349 | #786 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 190 | #1,207 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,336 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,166 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 192 | #1,101 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 195 | #1,087 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 217 | #978 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 204 | #1,007 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 233 | #905 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,353 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,179 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 113 | #1,431 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,371 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,337 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,662 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,935 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,806 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,969 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,704 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,530 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,394 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,513 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 93 | #1,358 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,406 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,448 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,725 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rhianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rhianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhianna, and how old are they?
5,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,774 Americans ever recorded as Rhianna. The median Rhianna alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 5,007 people named Rhianna (4,999 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 394 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 326 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rhianna born?
The states with the most babies named Rhianna are California, Texas and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 694 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 430 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 313 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 294 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 184 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 156 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 113 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 102 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 93 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Rhianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rhianna is most over-represented in Florida: since 1976 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rhianna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,182 babies since 1880, Rhianna is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 183 babies (9.8%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rhianna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rhianna and names like it
- Compare Rhianna and RihannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRhianna peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhianna since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Rhianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rhianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.