Riya
Riya was given to 137 girls in 2025, #1,546 among girls’ names; 6,273 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,220 Americans named Riya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Riya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Riya is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Riya?
#1,546 among girls’ names, 2025
Riya fell from #1,122 in 2015 to #1,546 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.09 per 1,000.
291 babies in 2005, the peak
Riya peaked in 2005, when 291 girls were given it, #872 among girls’ names. The 137 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,546 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,104 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 217 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 211 | #1,161 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,274 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,208 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 235 | #1,080 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 262 | #992 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 274 | #978 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 228 | #1,122 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 276 | #969 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 247 | #1,013 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 255 | #992 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 265 | #969 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 289 | #906 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 274 | #972 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 268 | #994 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 262 | #1,015 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 274 | #954 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 291 | #872 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 248 | #968 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,075 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 234 | #954 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 158 | #1,250 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,467 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,820 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,450 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,922 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,549 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,536 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,831 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,086 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riya, and how old are they?
6,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,273 Americans ever recorded as Riya. The median Riya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 5,794 people named Riya (5,778 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,840 |
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 Riya born?
The states with the most babies named Riya are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,145 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,449 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #763 | 3.5× |
| New York | 10 | #1,398 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 9 | #828 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,583 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,732 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,420 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,636 | 0.7× |
Where Riya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Riya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1990 it was given 3.5 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 Riya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,842 babies since 1880, Riya is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 137 of their 578 babies (24%), the second 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 Riya
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 Riya and names like it
- Compare Riya and RiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRiya peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Riya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Riya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.