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Rhianna

Rhianna reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 606, and has been recorded 5,774 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 5,700 Rhiannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rhianna

By the numbers

Total US births
5,774
Estimated living today
5,700
Median age today
23
Peak year
2007
Best rank
606th
Rank in 2025
6,325th
First recorded
1976

How old the living Rhiannas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,774 babies given the name since 1976, about 5,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

A variant spelling of Rihanna, from Arabic رَيْحَانَة. This spelling possibly influenced by unrelated Welsh names such as Rhiannon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Rhiannas

People named Rhianna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rhianna is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rhianna is most concentrated in Arizona (2.6×), Florida (2.6×), Colorado (2.2×), California (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Rhianna peaked:

All the names of 2007

Rhianna elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Rhianna 4,183 116th
Scotland girls Rhianna 389 104th
Northern Ireland girls Rhianna 263 38th
Ireland girls Rhianna 157 146th
France girls Rhianna 10 6,852nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.