Meaning not yet researched.
Rihanna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 2008; #2,150 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rihanna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,150 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #311.
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Rihanna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 girls in 2025. Peak: #311 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 1,075 (2008).
In 2025, 87 US girls were named Rihanna, making it the 2,150th most common girls’ name of the year, down 384 places from #1,766 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 115 girls named Rihanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #311, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,075. For comparison, it was #1,335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rihanna in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 6 babies. In all, 6,617 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,351 babies named Rihanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,406 US girls were named Rihanna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,474 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rihanna ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #984 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rhianna (5,774 babies since 1880), Rianna (3,826 babies since 1880), Reanna (5,580 babies since 1880) and Riana (2,286 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rehanna, Riyanna and Rionna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rehanna (215), Riyanna (212), Rionna (173), Ryhanna (159), Riannah (78), Reeanna (61), Rihonna (42), Riahna (30), Rieanna (21), Riahnna (20), Rihannah (20), Ryhana (16), and more.
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 Rihanna in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #984 | #937 |
| New York | 15 | #1,020 | #1,003 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,211 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,575 | #927 |
| Texas | 11 | #2,010 | #1,262 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,097 | #974 |
| California | 6 | #3,030 | #1,287 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 2019 | 129 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2018 | 166 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2017 | 162 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 2015 | 178 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2014 | 209 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2013 | 269 | #940 | — | — |
| 2012 | 323 | #831 | — | — |
| 2011 | 381 | #726 | — | — |
| 2010 | 500 | #587 | — | — |
| 2009 | 825 | #389 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,075 | #311 | 5 | #14,170 |
| 2007 | 789 | #415 | — | — |
| 2006 | 572 | #531 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,625 | — | — |
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).