Meaning not yet researched.
Riot: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,248 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,248 in 2024; #1,265 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Riot in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,265 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,248.
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Riot: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,248 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 159 (2024).
In 2025, 156 US boys were named Riot, making it the 1,265th most common boys’ name of the year, down 17 places from #1,248 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 159 boys named Riot in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,248, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 159. For comparison, it was #2,223 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Riot, making it the 5,872nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,416 places from #4,456 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 32 girls named Riot in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,456, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #11,656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riot in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 9 babies. In all, 1,513 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 820 babies named Riot.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 974 US boys were named Riot; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riot ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #280 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Reet, Reut and Rith are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reet (319), Reut (10), Rith (5).
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 Riot 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #280 | — |
| Utah | 11 | #434 | #752 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #605 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #641 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #767 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #924 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,113 | #1,734 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,122 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,246 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,450 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,872 | 156 | #1,265 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,456 | 159 | #1,248 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,567 | 108 | #1,622 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,661 | 109 | #1,608 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,629 | 85 | #1,834 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,280 | 80 | #1,866 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,646 | 78 | #1,911 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,519 | 77 | #1,933 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,368 | 49 | #2,591 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,968 | 73 | #1,986 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,656 | 61 | #2,223 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,403 | 61 | #2,226 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,115 | 43 | #2,753 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,450 | 55 | #2,348 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,156 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,645 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,558 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,689 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,774 |
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).