Riona
Riona was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,962 among girls’ names; 594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riona?
#4,962 among girls’ names, 2025
Riona fell from #4,380 in 2015 to #4,962 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 16.8 per million.
33 babies in 2015, the peak
Riona peaked in 2015, when 33 girls were given it, #4,380 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,962 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,520 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,697 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,594 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,374 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,422 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,059 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,188 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,673 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,100 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,380 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,139 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,793 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,526 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,057 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,339 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,263 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,756 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,662 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,346 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,564 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,157 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,379 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,329 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,560 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,492 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,613 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,572 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,399 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riona, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Riona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 495 people named Riona (495 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,373 babies since 1880, Riona is the sixth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 203 babies (13%), the third 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 Riona
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 Riona and names like it
- Compare Riona and RinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riona since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Riona.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riona alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.