Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Riya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.
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.
Locally spelled Liain BR Brazil, GE Georgia, FR France and 9 more, Leahin US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 6 more, לאהin IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Riain EG Egypt, MY Malaysia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Hindi210K81%
Bangla13K5%
English12K5%
Indonesian4.6K2%
Urdu2.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Hindi
210,133
81%
Bangla
13,469
5%
English
11,990
5%
Indonesian
4,563
2%
Urdu
2,640
1%
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◐
Riya is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
Thai given name1.6K records spelled Riya19 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Thailand, India, Laos, United States
Languages: Thai, Lao
Also written ระย้า, Raya, ระยะ, ระยา, รญา
a separate given name1.5K records spelled Riya2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom
Also written Riyā
Croatian given name344 records spelled Riya13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, India, United States
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian
Also written Rija, Рия, Řiya, Рија
Amharic given name298 records spelled Riya2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines
Also written ሪያ
Polish given name261 records spelled Riya2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States, India, United Kingdom
Also written Rîya
Russian given name258 records spelled Riya8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian
Also written Рия, Рія
31 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●
Riya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mrw, mouse; rat
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, hypocrisy
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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Riya in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1900–2016
Year
records
1900
1
1908
1
1919
3
1920
2
1921
2
1922
2
1923
19
1924
7
1925
6
1926
2
1927
1
1929
2
1930
1
1931
3
1932
2
1935
1
1936
2
1937
2
1939
3
1940
2
1941
2
1942
3
1943
3
1944
3
1945
4
1946
4
1947
4
1948
7
1949
4
1950
5
1951
3
1952
3
1953
4
1954
4
1955
6
1956
6
1957
3
1958
5
1959
14
1960
7
1961
8
1962
12
1963
12
1964
7
1965
10
1966
15
1967
20
1968
18
1969
27
1970
34
1971
25
1972
41
1973
71
1974
53
1975
79
1976
100
1977
138
1978
148
1979
215
1980
184
1981
258
1982
323
1983
402
1984
396
1985
441
1986
479
1987
591
1988
571
1989
674
1990
776
1991
967
1992
1,279
1993
1,629
1994
1,714
1995
1,762
1996
1,425
1997
1,333
1998
1,128
1999
133
2000
3
2001
1
2002
1
2008
6
2010
27
2011
2
2013
2
2014
60
2015
58
2016
1
INnaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1900–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
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).
Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)
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Reference works 1
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 337 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Riya?
We estimate roughly 499 thousand people bear Riya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Riya have the most bearers?
Riya is most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is most often spelled לאה.
Where is Riya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riya is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 169 people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is Riya compared with other names?
In Israel, Riya is the 18th most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.
Is Riya a male or female name?
Riya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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 pageMondonomo, “Riya” — the 18th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.