Rihanna

Where Rihanna comes from

From Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rihanna
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2000
    First appearance
    #13,154 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2008
    Peak, #311
    1,075 babies named Rihanna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #587.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely known Rihanna turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.