girls:
6k births since 1990
#2157 (62nd percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1990
#3519 (55th percentile)
The name Riya is the #3,519 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,950 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 54.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,157 (62.3% percentile) for all time with 5,950 births since 1990.
Riya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for girls in 1990).
For girls, Riya reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 30.2% percentile (ranked #656) with 143 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 147 births per million (ranked 29.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Riya ranks #730 for girls (22.9% percentile) with 127 births per million, which is 86.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Riya".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Riya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Riya is pronounced as REE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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