Riot
Riot is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 156 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,871 among girls’ names and #1,265 among boys’, #2,402 among all names counting both); 1,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Riot and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riot by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riot?
#1,265 among boys’ names, 2025
Riot rose from #2,223 in 2015 to #1,265 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 31.8 to 91.3 per million.
191 babies in 2024, the peak
Riot peaked in 2024, when 191 babies were given it (159 boys, #1,248 among boys’ names). The 177 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,871 | 156 | #1,265 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,454 | 159 | #1,248 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,562 | 108 | #1,622 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,656 | 109 | #1,608 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,624 | 85 | #1,834 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,276 | 80 | #1,866 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,642 | 78 | #1,911 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,514 | 77 | #1,932 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,364 | 49 | #2,590 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,964 | 73 | #1,986 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,651 | 61 | #2,223 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,398 | 61 | #2,224 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,110 | 43 | #2,751 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,443 | 55 | #2,347 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 36 | #3,155 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 21 | #4,643 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 22 | #4,556 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,684 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,768 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Riot a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,513 Americans recorded as Riot, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Riot: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riot, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,513 Americans ever recorded as Riot. The median Riot alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,340 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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.
Where are babies named Riot born?
The states with the most babies named Riot are California, Texas and Utah, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,113 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,246 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 11 | #434 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 9 | #924 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 9 | #641 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 8 | #767 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,450 | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #605 | 2.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,122 | 0.6× |
| Montana | 5 | #280 | 0.9× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Riot with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,202 babies since 1880, Riot is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 177 of their 271 babies (65%), again the 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 Riot
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 Riot and names like it
- Compare Riot and RyotBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRiot peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riot since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Riot.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riot alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.