Rihanna

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rihanna: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rihanna: Recorded every year since 2005, its highest recorded position is #77, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#77highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#668
2006	#239
2007	#193
2008	#198
2009	#293
2010	#341
2011	#336
2012	#522
2013	#663
2014	#814
2015	#1007
2016	#897
2017	#1105
2018	#1059
2019	#1252
2020	#1065
2021	#1311
2022	#1326
2023	#906
2024	#1230

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 15 of the 21 years from 2005 to 2025.

In 2021: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1311 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2005–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #668 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2006–2020
Highest recorded position: #77 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2007 (recorded 2006–2020).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Rihanna appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 1,727 births with the name.

Rihanna across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rihanna's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#587 (2005)	#158 (2009)	#718 (2025)	15 of 21	194 (2005–2025)	39 (2008)
England and Wales · Girls	#668 (2005)	#193 (2007)	#1230 (2024)	20 of 20	1,727 (2005–2024)	281 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#130 (2006)	#77 (2007)	#397 (2020)	10 of 15	132 (2006–2020)	30 (2008)

Rihanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rihanna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	949	5 of 10	190
2010s	633	10 of 10	63
2020s	145	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 190 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 150, from 46 to 196.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rihanna appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in Northern Ireland in 2007.

Rihanna's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1230	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#906	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1311	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1059	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#897	41	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#663	60	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#522	81	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#336	143	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#341	136	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#293	161	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#198	265	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#193	281	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#239	196	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#668	46	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#234	8	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#246	7	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#172	12	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#109	22	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#78	30	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#77	27	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#130	16	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#494	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#494	8	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#491	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#371	13	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	12	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#422	11	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#158	39	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#159	39	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#267	17	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	15	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2005 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #77, first reached in 2007.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 281 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Rikke · #57, 69y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Karyn · #77, 24y
Shannen · #77, 17y
Sharlene · #79, 23y
Gayle · #80, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Manaia · #72, 6y
Paidi · #84, 21y
Anahera · #86, 3y
Jax · #87, 23y

Rihanna was ranked #77 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rihanna and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rihanna without appearing here.

Rihanna moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #906 and #2689.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #906 and #2063.
Kelly Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #906 and #1774.
Shannon Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1252 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1065 and #1846.

Moved ahead of Rihanna

Kylie Compare
In 2020 they stood at #524 and #651 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #764 and #284.
Frida Compare
In 2016 they stood at #897 and #955 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1105 and #740.
Bonnie Compare
In 2015 they stood at #234 and #255 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #440 and #123.
Evelyn Compare
In 2015 they stood at #234 and #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #440 and #129.

Moved the opposite way to Rihanna

Ada Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 while Ada went from #951 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 while Alma went from #1500 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 while Amelia went from #15 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 while Aria went from #1295 to #35.

Moved the same way as Rihanna

Abigail Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 and Abigail from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 and Aimee from #49 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 and Aisling from #657 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rihanna went from #668 to #1230 and Alex from #251 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in Northern Ireland in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rihanna

Rihanna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rihanna across 3 official records

Rihanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rihanna appears in

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Rihanna at a glance

Rihanna across 3 official records

Rihanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Rihanna

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