Rihanna
#2,139 for girls in 2025, 87 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 1,075 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,612since 2000
Rihanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Rihanna has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,139 | 87 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,753 | 115 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,361 | 165 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,659 | 127 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,577 | 133 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,485 | 144 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 129 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,360 | 166 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,409 | 162 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,330 | 178 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,329 | 178 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,173 | 209 | — | |
| 2013 | #938 | 269 | — | |
| 2012 | #831 | 323 | — | |
| 2011 | #724 | 381 | — | |
| 2010 | #587 | 500 | — | |
| 2009 | #389 | 825 | — | |
| 2008 | #311 | 1,075 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #414 | 789 | — | |
| 2006 | #531 | 572 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,278 | 79 | — | |
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| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rihanna! It came in at #13,154, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001–2004, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rihanna
- 386 spots since 2024 (#1,753 → #2,139)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#1,485 → #2,139)
- 810 spots since 2015 (#1,329 → #2,139)
- Biggest jump: 1,747 spots in 2006 (#2,278 → #531)
- Biggest drop: 235 spots in 2014 (#938 → #1,173)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2008 at #311 (1,075 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2006–2013
- Highest: 1 in 1,759 girls born in 2008 were named Rihanna (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,474 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.6% of all girls named Rihanna (3,346) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3,346 | #311 (2008) | #2,846 |
| 2010s | 2,495 | #587 (2010) | #1,132 |
| 2020s | 771 | #1,361 (2023) | #1,662 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rihanna in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 3,324 of them was named Rihanna, which outranked 97.4% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.