Riya Girl
How popular is Riya?
#1,540 girl name in 2025
137 baby girls were named Riya in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
Riya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,540 for girls (▼ 265 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 137 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-40% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,121 in 2015, #1,271 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2005 (291 girls) |
| Highest rank | #871 in 2005 |
| First recorded | 1990 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Riya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Riya family of names ranked #936 for girls in 2025 (#843 the year before), with 227 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Riya | 137 | 60% |
| Riyah | 71 | 31% |
| Ryiah | 12 | 5% |
| Ryia | 7 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Riya is most popular
Babies named Riya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.4 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (166 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Virginia: 0.2 per 1,000 (29 girls)
Riya by decade
Girl names about as popular as Riya
Questions
- Is Riya a boy or girl name?
- Riya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Riya were girls.
- How popular is the name Riya?
- 137 baby girls were named Riya in the US in 2025, making it the 1540th most popular girl name.
- When was Riya most popular?
- Riya peaked in 2005, when 291 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #871 in 2005.
- How many people are named Riya?
- 6,273 babies have been named Riya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,230 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Riya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Riya was most common in New Jersey, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.