girls:
164 births since 2012
#5552 (3rd percentile)
boys:
977 births since 2007
#3615 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 2007
#6598 (15th percentile)
The name Riot is the #6,598 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,141 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 14.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,615 (21.1% percentile) for all time with 977 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,552 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 164 births since 2012.
Riot first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2012 for girls).
The name Riot has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 87.5% of babies named Riot were boys.
For boys, Riot reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #820) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 58 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Riot is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #811 (11.0% percentile) with 57 births per million.
For girls, Riot reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #926) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2014, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Riot ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 79.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Riot".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Riot. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Riot is pronounced as RAI-uht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is REE-uht, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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