Meaning not yet researched.
Rihana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,307 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,307 in 2007; #7,074 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rihana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,074 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,307.
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Rihana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,307 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 84 (2007).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Rihana, making it the 7,074th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,371 places from #9,445 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 11 girls named Rihana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,307, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #12,773 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rihana in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 705 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 352 babies named Rihana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Rihana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rihanna (6,617 babies since 1880), Rina (4,809 babies since 1880), Rianna (3,826 babies since 1880) and Riana (2,286 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Rihana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,074 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,445 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,404 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,226 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,207 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,162 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,620 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,471 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,924 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,776 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,773 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,751 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,968 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,527 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,961 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,664 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,943 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,088 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,725 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,318 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,909 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,375 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,039 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,954 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,993 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,208 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,091 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,970 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,338 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,128 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,926 | — | — |
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).