Meaning not yet researched.
Riya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 137 in 2025. Its best rank was #872 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #872 in 2005; #1,546 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Riya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,546 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #872.
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Riya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 137 girls in 2025. Peak: #872 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 291 (2005).
In 2025, 137 US girls were named Riya, making it the 1,546th most common girls’ name of the year, down 269 places from #1,277 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 182 girls named Riya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #872, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 291. For comparison, it was #1,122 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 6,273 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,525 babies named Riya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,111 US girls were named Riya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 274. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,732 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #763 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Rio (7,812 babies since 1880), Ria (4,115 babies since 1880) and Reya (2,939 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Bangla. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Riya 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 10 | #763 | #496 |
| Virginia | 9 | #828 | #664 |
| California | 23 | #1,145 | #802 |
| New York | 10 | #1,398 | #1,004 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,449 | #1,178 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,583 | #657 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,636 | #1,208 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,732 | #808 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,420 | #2,032 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2022 | 217 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2021 | 211 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2018 | 235 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2017 | 262 | #992 | — | — |
| 2016 | 274 | #978 | — | — |
| 2015 | 228 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2014 | 276 | #969 | — | — |
| 2013 | 247 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2012 | 255 | #992 | — | — |
| 2011 | 265 | #969 | — | — |
| 2010 | 289 | #906 | — | — |
| 2009 | 274 | #972 | — | — |
| 2008 | 268 | #994 | — | — |
| 2007 | 262 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2006 | 274 | #954 | — | — |
| 2005 | 291 | #872 | — | — |
| 2004 | 248 | #968 | — | — |
| 2003 | 206 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 2002 | 234 | #955 | — | — |
| 2001 | 158 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,541 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,041 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,493 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,974 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,838 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,092 | — | — |
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).