Ria
Ria reached its high-water mark in 2005 at number 1,149, and has been recorded 4,115 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,326th. About 4,000 Rias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ria
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,115
- Estimated living today
- 4,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 1,149th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,326th
- First recorded
- 1934
How old the living Rias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,115 babies given the name since 1934, about 4,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 120 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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
Diminutive of Maria.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rias
- Ria Percival (born 1989)New Zealand association football player
- Ria Stalman (born 1951)Dutch discus thrower
- Ria Baran (1922–1986)German figure skater
- Ria Visser (born 1961)Dutch speed skater
- Ria Oomen-Ruijten (born 1950)Dutch politician
People named Ria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ria is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ria is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.5×), California (3.2×), New York (1.6×), Virginia (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year Ria peaked:
Ria elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Ria | 3,938 | 194th |
| Ireland girls | Ria +1 spelling | 365 | 227th |
| Scotland girls | Ria | 258 | 272nd |
| Switzerland girls | Ria | 234 | 370th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Ria | 148 | 161st |
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.
Ria: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ria | 227 | 0.018% | 263rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ria | 4 | 0.001% | 577th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Ria | 2 | 0.003% | 161st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Ria | 1 | 0.027% | 11th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ria is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Ria by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 33 | 219th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ria among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Ria | 1,898 | 3,168 |
| Finland girls | Ria | 524 | 644 |
| the Netherlands boys | Ria | — | 91 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ria against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.