Riyad is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Riyad in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Riyad in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Riyad by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Riyad ranks at #4,767. That means there are 4,766 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Riyad.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Riyad. Boys named Riyad have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,790 Riyad ranked higher than ever before in 1978. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Riyad has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2005. In general, parents name their sons Riyad only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Riyad was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Riyad continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Riyad that year, ranking #7,071 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Riyad, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Riyad is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Riyad can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Riyad. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Riyad living in one state or another. (If your name is Riyad and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Riyad is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00005% of all male residents are called Riyad – that’s just one in 2,127,683! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 men going by that name. So, if your name is Riyad, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Riyad 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.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Riyad 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 Riyad, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Riyad
Riyad
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
I
Y
A
D
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
D
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. Riyad sounds like this:
