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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 1,759 of them was named Rihanna, which outranked 98.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 408,030 of them was named Rihanna, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).