Rihanna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rihanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna), singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”).
- BRBrazil1 in 75K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 17K
- GYGuyana1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
4,637 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna), singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”).
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rihanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,637 | 1 in 72K | 4.6K | Rihanna | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 2,811 | 1 in 75K | 2.8K | Rihanna | 23 |
| FR France | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 1.1K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 274 | 1 in 183K | 274 | Rihanna | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 195 | 1 in 17K | 195 | Rihanna | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 150 | 1 in 68K | 150 | — | 1 |
| PA Panama | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Rihanna | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 35 | 1 in 21K | 35 | — | — |
4,637 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rejhana bint Amrb. 590SAnot in their usual nameMuhammad's concubine or twelfth wife (d. 631)
- Rayhana Takoutab. 1963DZnot in their usual namesociologue
- Rihanna Rimesb. 1990USAmerican pornographic actress
- Rihanna Samuelb. 1991CZCzech pornographic actress
- Rihanna Traoreb. 2006DEGerman association football player
- Rihanna Sherchanb. 2010NPbadminton player
- Rihana BachirMAnot in their usual nameMoroccan poet
- Rayhana SultanGBnot in their usual nameBritish Bangladeshi human rights activist and spokesperson for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.6K | #4,138 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.8K | #4,068 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,481 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 442 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 386 | #16,839 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 274 | #7,082 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 216 | #3,847 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 195 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 192 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 150 | #6,466 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 103 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Rihanna?
- In the etymology graph, Reyhan and Rayhana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Rihanna mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna), singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Rihanna a male or female name?
- Rihanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rihanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Rihanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rihanna.
- Where is Rihanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rihanna is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rihanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,637 people named Rihanna in 2020, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rihannaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rihanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.