Ryah
Ryah was given to 92 girls in 2025, #2,057 among girls’ names; 1,478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Ryah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryah?
#2,057 among girls’ names, 2025
Ryah rose from #3,293 in 2015 to #2,057 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 57.2 per million.
110 babies in 2024, the peak
Ryah peaked in 2024, when 110 girls were given it, #1,838 among girls’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,057 | 57.2 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,838 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,266 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,082 | 56.7 |
| 2021 | 86 | #2,180 | 52.4 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,175 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,705 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,925 | 33.5 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,960 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,177 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,293 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,177 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,721 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,455 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,831 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,296 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,184 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,465 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,884 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,441 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,014 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,511 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,506 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,848 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,019 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,430 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,146 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,008 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,593 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,661 | 8.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,506 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,177 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,064 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ryah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ryah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryah, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,478 Americans ever recorded as Ryah. The median Ryah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Ryah (939 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 529 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 903 |
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 Ryah born?
The states with the most babies named Ryah are California, Texas and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,727 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,771 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,102 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,176 | 0.3× |
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 Ryah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ryah?
Ryah is a less common spelling of Riya: SSA has recorded 1,478 Ryah and 6,273 Riya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,832 babies since 1880, Ryah is the fourth most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 584 babies (16%), the third 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 Ryah
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 Ryah and names like it
- Compare Ryah and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRyah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ryah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.