Riane — girls' name
534 babies named Riane in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Riane was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Riane in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Riane
The Social Security Administration has registered 534 babies named Riane between 1980 and 2021, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Riane currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Riane performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 222 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Riane shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Riane in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Riane in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 534 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Riane at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Riane popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1980
- Peak year (1989)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
534 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 36 births in a single year.
Riane popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 2004 (Riane as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Riane accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Riane by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 222 births that decade — 42% of Riane's all-time total
Riane decade highlights
- Peak decade 222 births
- Runner-up 150 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Riane's strongest decade
222 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Riane by state
Where Riane concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 27 | 5.1% |
| #2 | Texas | | 10 | 1.9% |
| #3 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.9% |
27 of 534 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.1% of nationwide
- Texas 1.9% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.9% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.