Riva
Riva was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,696 among girls’ names; 1,619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Riva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 10 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riva?
#3,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Riva rose from #5,988 in 2015 to #3,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 25.5 per million.
57 babies in 2023, the peak
Riva peaked in 2023, when 57 girls were given it, #2,968 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,696 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,163 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,968 | 35.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,183 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,484 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,629 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,248 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,112 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,289 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,223 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,988 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,599 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,794 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,527 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,058 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,442 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,982 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,014 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,429 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,551 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,331 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,439 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,380 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,970 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,826 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,071 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,109 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,431 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,866 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,548 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,404 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,399 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,619 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,845 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,298 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,006 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,629 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,914 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,078 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,990 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,147 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,394 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,133 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,252 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,487 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,812 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,154 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,285 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,224 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,113 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,203 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,659 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,300 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,022 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,346 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,195 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,292 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,706 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,300 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,685 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,143 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,612 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,823 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,264 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,815 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,112 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,073 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,884 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,878 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,439 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,703 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,360 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,006 | 14.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,898 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,941 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,171 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,884 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,545 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,855 | 8.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,041 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,879 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,448 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,812 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,797 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,744 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,731 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,978 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,154 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,301 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,964 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,936 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,944 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,116 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,317 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,445 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,307 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,014 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,723 | 7.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,719 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riva, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,619 Americans ever recorded as Riva. The median Riva alive today is 30 years old; half are between 10 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,698 people named Riva (1,674 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 192 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 184 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 243 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 454 |
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. 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).
Where are babies named Riva born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,793 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,697 | 0.1× |
Where Riva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Riva is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Riva 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,711 babies since 1880, Riva is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 58 babies (71%), 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 Riva
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 Riva and names like it
- Compare Riva and RiviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRiva peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riva since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Riva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.