Rya
Rya was given to 140 girls in 2025, #1,522 among girls’ names; 1,928 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Rya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 3 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rya?
#1,522 among girls’ names, 2025
Rya rose from #2,679 in 2015 to #1,522 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.5 to 87.1 per million.
190 babies in 2024, the peak
Rya peaked in 2024, when 190 girls were given it, #1,236 among girls’ names. The 140 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | #1,522 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 190 | #1,236 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 159 | #1,412 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 168 | #1,377 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,966 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,437 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,601 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,548 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,186 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,930 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,679 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,512 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,256 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,125 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,581 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,505 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,555 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,151 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,645 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,301 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,711 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,969 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,183 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,074 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,437 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,752 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,997 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,955 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,505 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,255 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,581 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,234 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,233 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,312 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rya has been given almost only to girls: 19 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rya, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,928 Americans ever recorded as Rya. The median Rya alive today is 10 years old; half are between 3 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,297 people named Rya (1,169 women and girls, 128 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rya rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 37 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 111 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 581 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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 Rya born?
The states with the most babies named Rya are California, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,563 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,227 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #860 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #693 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,873 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,375 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,410 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,659 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #2,368 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,190 | 0.4× |
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 Rya 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, Rya is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 140 of their 578 babies (24%), the 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 Rya
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 Rya and names like it
- Compare Rya and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRya peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Rya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.