Rihana
Rihana was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,072 among girls’ names; 705 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rihana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rihana?
#7,072 among girls’ names, 2025
Rihana rose from #12,768 in 2015 to #7,072 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 10.0 per million.
84 babies in 2007, the peak
Rihana peaked in 2007, when 84 girls were given it, #2,307 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,072 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,440 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,399 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,221 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,202 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,158 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,615 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,467 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,918 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,773 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,768 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,745 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,964 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,525 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,655 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,241 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,845 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,748 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,307 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,910 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,956 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,658 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,938 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,628 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,081 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,717 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,309 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,902 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,370 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,033 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,948 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,985 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,201 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,085 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,963 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,333 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,125 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,923 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rihana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rihana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rihana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rihana, and how old are they?
An estimated 698 Americans named Rihana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Rihana (715 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 625 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Rihana?
Rihana is a less common spelling of Rihanna: SSA has recorded 705 Rihana and 6,617 Rihanna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,430 babies since 1880, Rihana is the sixth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 264 babies (6.1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Rihana
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 Rihana and names like it
- Compare Rihana and RihannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRihana peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rihana since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Rihana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rihana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.