Meaning not yet researched.
Riaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #861 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #861 in 2016; #1,764 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Riaan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,764 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #861.
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Riaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #861 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 262 (2016).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Riaan, making it the 1,764th most common boys’ name of the year, up 168 places from #1,932 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 82 boys named Riaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #861, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 262. For comparison, it was #929 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riaan in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 5 babies. In all, 1,846 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,053 babies named Riaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,463 US boys were named Riaan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 262. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riaan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #893 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryan (991,747 babies since 1880), Ryann (12,109 babies since 1880), Rian (9,118 babies since 1880) and Riyan (1,832 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rehaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rehaan (349).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Riaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #893 | #327 |
| California | 22 | #1,006 | #653 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,076 | #841 |
| New York | 9 | #1,274 | #1,591 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,435 | #1,181 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,041 | #998 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).