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How popular is the name Riya?
Births per year, rank history and how many Riyas are alive today.
Riya (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 763rd in 2025 with 48 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2006, when 118 babies were given the name, the 359th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 832 in 2023 before climbing back to the 763rd place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Riya is one spelling of a name also recorded as Riyah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Riya you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Riyas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 21, and there are at least 2,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Riya - on average, only one in every 144 such rooms contains a Riya.
How many babies are named Riya each year?
Includes all spellings: Riya, Riyah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Riya spelling rank?
Where does the Riyah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Riya most popular?
Riya peaked in 2006, when 125 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Riya?
At least 2,200 people named Riya in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Riya?
Most living Riyas are between 9 and 21; the most common age is about 19.
Is Riya becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.