Ria
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ria is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 18th most common given name.
- GEGeorgia1 in 169as ლია(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 385as לאה
- RORomania≈1 in 671as Leah
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ria itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #599 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 570 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
200,964 named Leah, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Georgia, as ლია
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Leah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Lia in GE Georgia, BR Brazil, FI Finland and לאה in IL Israel, RO Romania.
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)
Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ria 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 | #377 | 200,964as Leah | 1 in 1.7K | 201K | Leah | 570 |
| PH Philippines | #174 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 53K | Leah | 155 |
| RO Romania | #76 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | — | לאה | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | #322 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 480 | Leah | 307 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,649as Lia | 1 in 9K | 24K | Lia | 154 |
| GE Georgia | #33 | 23,613as ლია | 1 in 169 | 24K | Lia | 64 |
| IL Israel | #18 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | 1.1K | לאה | 86 |
| FI Finland | — | 11,049as Lea | 1 in 504 | 20K | Lia | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 5,344as Lea | 1 in 791 | 7.3K | — | 1 |
200,964 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; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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)
Ria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A waterfall.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Pet form of MARIA.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Cantante
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In cdo, the mandarin orange, (hdk-gék) rapid sections of an orange
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ria Baranb. 1922DEGerman figure skater (1922–1986)
- Ria Stalmanb. 1951NLDutch discus thrower
- Ria Marksb. 1953NLDutch actor (born 1953)
- Ria Nanamib. 1981JPJapanese AV idol
- Ritchie De Laetb. 1988BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player
- Ria Percivalb. 1989NZNew Zealand association football player
- Ria Sakuraib. 1989JPJapanese AV idol
- Ria Horisakib. 1992JPJapanese AV idol
- Ria Ricisb. 1995IDIndonesian actress and YouTuber
- Kim Ye-jinb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean short track speed skater
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 81 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.1K | #3,844 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 704 | #943 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 641 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 360 | #17,602 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 205 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 160 | #115,686 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 107 | #1,560 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 106 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 78 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 69 | #39,630 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #39,630 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 does the name Ria mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Maria, of German origin but now also used occasionally in the English-speaking world. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Ria have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 201 thousand people named Leah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ria most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Ria itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Georgia's: the national register counts about 1 in 169 people named ლია.
- How common is the name Ria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200,964 people named Leah in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Ria compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ria is the 377th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ria” — the 377th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.