Riyadh

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Riad in FR France, US United States, SY Syria and 21 more, Риад in RU Russia and Riyad in NL Netherlands.

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●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Riyadh is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name949 records spelled Riyadh23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Syria, United States, Spain

  Languages: French, Arabic, Catalan

  Also written Riyad, Riad, Rîyâd, Riyâd, Rïÿãd

• Spanish given name564 records spelled Riyadh24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Venezuela

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Riad, Riade, Rîàd, Ríâd, Rïãď

• Persian given name179 records spelled Riyadh7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, United States, Iraq

  Languages: Persian, Pashto

  Also written Riyad, Riyāḍ

• a separate name91 records spelled Riyadh6 spellings in the group

  Also written Riad

39 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●

Riyadh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, alternative form of Riade

  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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Riyadh Al-Azzawib. 1990IQIraqi-British kickboxer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 60 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Riyadh?

We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Riyadh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Riyadh have the most bearers?

Riyadh is most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia, where it is most often spelled riyadh.

How common is Riyadh compared with other names?

In Algeria, Riyadh is the 118th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.

What does the name Riyadh mean?

Recorded meaning: city, Saudi Arabia