Ria
Ria was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,346 among girls’ names; 4,115 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,000 Americans named Ria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ria is “a female given name derived from Maria.”
Diminutive of Maria.
/riːə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ria?
#2,346 among girls’ names, 2025
Ria fell from #2,232 in 2015 to #2,346 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 47.6 to 48.5 per million.
202 babies in 2005, the peak
Ria peaked in 2005, when 202 girls were given it, #1,150 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,346 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,505 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,060 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,360 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,436 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,237 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,186 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,927 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,882 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,232 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,989 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,790 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,830 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,756 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,842 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,684 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 147 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 166 | #1,378 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 202 | #1,150 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,182 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 174 | #1,221 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 134 | #1,429 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,502 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,960 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,301 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,280 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,723 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,344 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,473 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,975 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,806 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,646 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,691 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,194 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,330 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,595 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,211 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,982 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,362 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,344 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,298 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,364 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,472 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,542 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,125 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,345 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,907 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,236 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,739 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,203 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ria, and how old are they?
4,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,115 Americans ever recorded as Ria. The median Ria alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,123 people named Ria (5,087 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,574 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 277 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 445 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Ria born?
The states with the most babies named Ria are California, Texas and New York, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,724 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,354 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #2,358 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,316 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,582 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,210 | 0.4× |
Where Ria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ria is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1934 it was given 2.3 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 Ria 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 15,842 babies since 1880, Ria is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 578 babies (13%), 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 Ria
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 Ria and names like it
- Compare Ria and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRia peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ria since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.