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The first name 
Riana

Riana is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Riana meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Riana is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Riana. In the SmartGenius ranking, Riana is #3,859 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Riana.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Riana

Riana -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Riana did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Riana seemed to be more popular than ever in 2000. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,389, 124 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Riana, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Riana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Riana in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Riana a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #3,867 - with a total of 32 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Riana -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Riana 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 Riana is registered in 19 states, among which are Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Florida. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Riana live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 44,384 would turn around if you called the name Riana across California.

Riana has 5 letters 
and begins with an R

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 five letters, the name Riana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.

Other names with 
R, i, a, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Riana – R, i, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Riaan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Riana

If your name is Riana 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...

This is how you spell the name Riana

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Riana, you can simply say:

Rocket

Igloo

Apple

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Riana is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Riana in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Riana

Riana

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Riana

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Riana is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
I
A
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Riana

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
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Riana sounds like this: