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Riann vs Rianna

American parents have registered 3,826 Riannas since 1880, against 773 Rianns. Rianna is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Riann against Rianna, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Riann Rianna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Rianna for 48 years and Riann for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Riann Rianna
Total US births 7733,826
Most in one year 76271
Babies in 2025 under 530
Estimated living today 7603,800
Median age today 2323
Peak year 19772002
Best rank 1,451st girls850th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,546th
First recorded 19771976
Girls / boys 773 / 03,826 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Riann Rianna
England and Wales 261,157
France 1520

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Riann and Rianna.