girls:
1.3k births since 1980
#4448 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1980
#6467 (16th percentile)
The name Ryah is the #6,467 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,274 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 16.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,448 (22.2% percentile) for all time with 1,274 births since 1980.
Ryah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for girls in 1980). Birth data for Ryah is available in 31 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Ryah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #871) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 51 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ryah ranks #870 for girls (8.1% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 91.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ryah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ryah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ryah is pronounced as RAI-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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