Riyana
Riyana was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,521 among girls’ names; 383 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riyana?
#5,521 among girls’ names, 2025
Riyana rose from #6,412 in 2015 to #5,521 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 14.3 per million.
33 babies in 2021, the peak
Riyana peaked in 2021, when 33 girls were given it, #4,304 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,521 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,441 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,967 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,657 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,304 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,583 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,423 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,189 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,239 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,307 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,412 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,780 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,779 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,085 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,209 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,369 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,758 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,038 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,785 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,623 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,496 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,513 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,999 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,175 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,622 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Riyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riyana, and how old are they?
An estimated 380 Americans named Riyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Riyana (270 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 Riyana?
Riyana is a less common spelling of Rhianna: SSA has recorded 383 Riyana and 5,774 Rhianna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,083 babies since 1880, Riyana is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 275 babies (8.4%), the fifth 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 Riyana
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 Riyana and names like it
- Compare Riyana and RhiannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRiyana peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riyana since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Riyana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riyana alive today were born 2013-2025.
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