Riya is an Indian first name that means ‘singer’. In the US, it is in use since the late 1980s.
Riya is a first name for girls.
Riya 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 1,006 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,005 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 Riya.
Riya is an Indian first name that means ‘singer’. In the US, it is in use since the late 1980s.
Riya is one... of the most popular girls names in India.
Riya is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Riya cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #829 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2005. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Riya, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Riya seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Riya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
214 babies were named Riya in 2022 - that's 1 in 692,672 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Riya ranked 1,028 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 four letters, the name Riya is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Riya 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 Riya, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Riya
Riya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
I
Y
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
Y
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. Riya sounds like this:
