Ria

loc · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ria is a name, most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 169◐
  • ILIsrael1 in 194
  • FRFrance1 in 325

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈499K ●

across 10 countries

#778 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
514 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 169 ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

LeahLatin · English●1.4M records
לאהHebrew · Hebrew●347K records
ᲚიაGeorgian · Georgian●70K records
리아Hangul · Korean●7.9K records
ԼիաArmenian · Armenian●557 records
ΛιαGreek · Greek●284 records
ลีญาThai · Thai●34 records
ልያEthiopic · Amharic●17 records
රියSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lia in BR Brazil, GE Georgia, FR France and 9 more, Leah in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 6 more, לאה in IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Riya in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ria is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#18348,786352K rec.—1.1Kלאה82
IN India—248,050100K rec.—1.1KRiya216
FR France#893208,710△20K rec.1 in 325209KLia207
US United States#369200,7051.1M rec.1 in 1.7K201KLeah514
AR Argentina#473152,23198K rec.—4.1KLia90
BD Bangladesh#218136,4095.8K rec.——Liza44
PH Philippines#186107,11282K rec.—53KLeah144
GB United Kingdom#304102,77072K rec.—47Leah240
AU Australia#24191,02766K rec.—79Leah239
CA Canada#26050,69731K rec.—40Leah209
EG Egypt—41,5962.3K rec.——Ria22
BR Brazil—23,64917K rec.1 in 9K24KLia152

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic40K9%
  • Malay7.5K2%
  • Vietnamese5.8K1%
  • French6891%
  • Portuguese1911%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic40,0559%
Malay7,5222%
Vietnamese5,8021%
French6891%
Portuguese1911%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ria is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname82K records spelled Ria41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Algeria, Morocco

    Languages: English, Norwegian

    Also written 'Ria, Rîå, Riá, Rîa, Rîä

  • Portuguese name26K records spelled Ria16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Riã, Řìą, Rïä, ́ria, Rïå

  • a separate name4.3K records spelled Ria9 spellings in the group

    Also written Rià, Rïã, Rïä, Rïa, ́ria

  • French surname3.8K records spelled Ria37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Rià, Riâ, Rìã, Ŕīā, Ŕîå

  • a separate name1.7K records spelled Ria2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ría

  • a separate name1.6K records spelled Ria4 spellings in the group

    Also written Rìà, Riã, Rįā

  • Macedonian given name1.1K records spelled Ria12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia

    Also written Риа, Rīã, Riã, Riå

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A waterfall.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Pet form of MARIA.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Cantante

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In cdo, the mandarin orange, (hdk-gék) rapid sections of an orange

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010020030019401960198020002020202 · 2005

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Ria in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1934–2025
Yearrecords
19346
19366
19435
19467
19479
194810
19499
19508
19518
195210
195313
195411
195515
19566
195711
19586
195917
196011
19619
196215
196319
196410
196512
196612
196716
196828
196913
197018
197113
197210
197316
197421
197514
197615
197723
197823
197933
198030
198128
198226
198322
198427
198524
198627
198723
198823
198924
199024
199129
199230
199343
199440
199532
199635
199746
199838
199965
200086
2001125
2002134
2003174
2004190
2005202
2006166
2007147
2008133
2009131
2010111
2011117
2012111
2013115
2014100
201585
2016109
2017105
201886
201985
202081
202174
202279
202395
202472
202578

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Ria Baran, b. 1922Ria Stalman, b. 1951Ria Marks, b. 1953Ria Nanami, b. 1981Ritchie De Laet, b. 1988Ria Percival, b. 1989Ria Sakurai, b. 1989Ria Horisaki, b. 1992Ria Ricis, b. 1995Kim Ye-jin, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 80 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Ria
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.1K#3,844
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.9K#1,405
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—704#1,876
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—641—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—360#17,602
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—232#893
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021205—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—168#5,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020160#115,686
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—127#7,268
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—116#984
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—110#1,486

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 428 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ria?
We estimate roughly 499 thousand people bear Ria (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ria have the most bearers?
Ria is most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is most often spelled לאה.
Where is Ria most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ria is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 169 people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ria compared with other names?
In Israel, Ria is the 18th most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.
What does the name Ria mean?
Recorded meaning: Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ria” — the 18th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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