# Riaan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/riaan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,846 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,846 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 396, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,918 |
| 2012 | 35 | 3,223 |
| 2013 | 33 | 3,324 |
| 2014 | 58 | 2,290 |
| 2015 | 229 | 929 |
| 2016 | 262 | 861 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1,283 |
| 2018 | 139 | 1,314 |
| 2019 | 132 | 1,363 |
| 2020 | 190 | 1,057 |
| 2021 | 179 | 1,139 |
| 2022 | 119 | 1,521 |
| 2023 | 126 | 1,448 |
| 2024 | 82 | 1,932 |
| 2025 | 92 | 1,764 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 38 | 821 |
| 2016 | 40 | 801 |
| 2017 | 34 | 906 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1,097 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 31 | 921 |
| 2021 | 49 | 704 |
| 2022 | 27 | 1,058 |
| 2023 | 45 | 738 |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,162 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.