Rī
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rī is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 499K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rï in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia and Ri in MA Morocco.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
蒙 古人 姓 。 源 出 地 儿 只 斤 氏 地 端 察 儿 五 代 孙 也 客 , 见 《 蒙 古 世系 》(508 ) 。 也 , 马 [ ~ 马 ]j yéma
Sources 3
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rī 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.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rī is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of リー
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of R
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Rī Malmezona - Rieijmalmezona, pilsēta Francijā ("Rueil-Malmaison")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Dānijā, Vidusjitlandes reģionā, 5800 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rī a male or female name?
- Rī is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Rī have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Rī in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rï.
- How common is the name Rī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 666 people named Rī in 2020, about 1 in 499 thousand residents.
- How common is Rī compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Rī is the 599th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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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, “Rī” — the 599th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.