Riyah
Riyah was given to 71 girls in 2025, #2,507 among girls’ names; 869 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riyah?
#2,507 among girls’ names, 2025
Riyah rose from #4,131 in 2015 to #2,507 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 44.2 per million.
91 babies in 2023, the peak
Riyah peaked in 2023, when 91 girls were given it, #2,121 among girls’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,507 | 44.2 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,407 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,121 | 56.7 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,601 | 41.5 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,702 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,666 | 25.4 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,540 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,480 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,133 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,764 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,131 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,141 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,115 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,277 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,826 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,143 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,265 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,015 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,333 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,422 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,767 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,515 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,998 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,026 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 863 Americans named Riyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 435 people named Riyah (430 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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).
How common is the spelling Riyah?
Riyah is a less common spelling of Riya: SSA has recorded 869 Riyah and 6,273 Riya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,832 babies since 1880, Riyah is the fifth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 584 babies (12%), again the fifth 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 Riyah
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.
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