Riot — #1244 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Riot

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,138 babies named Riot between 2007 and 2024, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Riot currently holds the #1244 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 159 babies received it in a single year. Riot is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 197 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Riot performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 554 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Riot shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 142 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Riot in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Riot 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 1,138 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.