Riaan
Riaan was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,764 among boys’ names; 1,846 Americans have been recorded with it since 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Riaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Riaan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Riaan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Riaan?
#1,764 among boys’ names, 2025
Riaan fell from #929 in 2015 to #1,764 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.05 per 1,000.
262 babies in 2016, the peak
Riaan peaked in 2016, when 262 boys were given it, #861 among boys’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,764 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 82 | #1,932 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,448 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,521 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 179 | #1,139 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 190 | #1,057 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,363 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,314 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,283 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 262 | #861 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 229 | #929 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,322 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,911 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,468 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,050 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Riaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riaan, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,846 Americans ever recorded as Riaan. The median Riaan alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 10.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 62 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,770 |
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.
Where are babies named Riaan born?
The states with the most babies named Riaan are California, New York and Texas, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #1,006 | 1.6× |
| New York | 9 | #1,274 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,041 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #893 | 3.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,076 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,435 | 0.3× |
Where Riaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Riaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2009 it was given 3.8 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 boys’ 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 Riaan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Riaan?
Riaan is a less common spelling of Ryan: SSA has recorded 1,846 Riaan and 991,747 Ryan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,008,095 babies since 1880, Riaan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 4,425 babies (2.1%), 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 Riaan
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 Riaan and names like it
- Compare Riaan and RyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRiaan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Riaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.