Rya

#1,518 for girls in 2025, 140 births · Last seen for boys in 1986 at #4,853
Given to girls 99.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 190 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,909
since 1971

Rya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Rya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,518140
2024#1,236190
2023#1,407159
2022#1,373168
2021#1,955100
2020#3,39945
2019#3,55243
2018#3,49744
2017#3,14551
2016#2,90258
2015#2,64667
2014#2,49772
2013#3,21850
2012#3,09454
2011#2,55570
2010#3,47046
2009#3,51246
2008#3,12054
2007#3,60145
2006#3,26450
2005#3,64640
2004#3,89836
2003#4,10932
2002#5,89719
2001#4,83424
2000#4,79124
1999#5,21920
1998#7,10413
1997#6,48314
1996#5,77116
1995#9,5538
1994#9,5868
1993#9,5598
1992#6,65213
1991#6,25314
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1986#10,9125#4,8538
1985#10,6775#5,7856
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1983#9,0156
1982#10,5175#6,3855
1981#7,4098
1980#6,7899
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five girls were named Rya! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Rya
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 282 spots since 2024 (#1,236#1,518)
  • 1,881 spots since 2020 (#3,399#1,518)
  • 1,128 spots since 2015 (#2,646#1,518)
Rise & fade · girls
53 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,236 (190 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,527
  • Highest: 1 in 8,527 girls born in 2024 were named Rya (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,480 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 42.0% of all girls named Rya (802) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s30#5,888 (1977)#7,367
1980s38#6,789 (1980)#9,220
1990s114#5,219 (1999)#7,353
2000s370#3,120 (2008)#4,067
2010s555#2,497 (2014)#3,058
2020s802#1,236 (2024)#1,815

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.

Rya in 1971

girls
#8,324
5 births · 1 in 332,765 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #8,324Rya5
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 332,765 of them was named Rya, which outranked 13.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rya
  1. #7,388Zetta6
  2. #7,388Zonda6
  3. #7,388Zoraya6
  4. #8,324Rya5
  5. #8,324Aarti5
  6. #8,324Abagail5
  7. #8,324Abraham5

Tied with 1,321 names at #8,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. 2,115Yesenia#2,522#407
  2. 1,431Shayla#2,267#836
  3. 853Ebony#1,681#828
  4. 749Consuela#1,706#957
  5. 510Candida#1,196#686
Fallers
  1. 572Sebrina#916#1,488
  2. 382Janene#684#1,066
  3. 375Treena#989#1,364
  4. 356Tisa#910#1,266
  5. 351Shaun#929#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971