Rie
Rie was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 84 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rie is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Also “a female given name from Dutch.”
Japanese りえ (Rie), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.
Danish Rie
Dutch Rie
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,021, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1992, the peak
Rie peaked in 1992, when 10 girls were given it, #8,572 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #17,021 | 3.1 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,236 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,412 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,203 | 2.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,790 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,193 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,485 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,572 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,714 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,564 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #13,370 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,849 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,815 | 4.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,476 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rie, and how old are they?
An estimated 82 Americans named Rie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,264 people named Rie (1,247 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rie rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,292 babies since 1880, Rie is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 398 babies recorded by SSA was a Rie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rie
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 Rie and names like it
- Compare Rie and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRie peaked in 1992.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Rie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Rie.
- Names starting with RMost given first.