Ria is a first name for girls.
Ria is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,872 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,871 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ria.
While Ria isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2005 the name Ria reached its highest popularity with #1,087 in our ranking of all female first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their daughter Ria (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five girls named Ria to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Ria has been given to babies in 80 of the 143 years since records began, making girls with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ria was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 77 babies were born with the name Ria. This puts the name in rank 2,125 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,925,090 newborns was named Ria that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Ria has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Ria are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Ria is registered in 18 states, among which are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Ria live in New Jersey, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 16,313 would turn around if you called the name Ria across New Jersey.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Ria is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Ria and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ria, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ria
Ria
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ria sounds like this:
