girls:
6.4k births since 2000
#2068 (64th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2008
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 2000
#3382 (56th percentile)
The name Rihanna is the #3,382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,411 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 56.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,068 (63.8% percentile) for all time with 6,406 births since 2000. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2008.
Rihanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Rihanna is available in 20 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (20 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rihanna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rihanna reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 69.1% percentile (ranked #305) with 516 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 516 births per million (ranked 69.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rihanna ranks #787 for girls (16.9% percentile) with 94 births per million, which is 18.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rihanna reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #907) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rihanna".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Rihanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.3% confident that Rihanna is pronounced as ree-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ree-A-nuh, at 24.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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