Riona
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps ‘queenly’, from rioghan ‘queen’; Regina used as translation
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Riona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 62K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 155K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps ‘queenly’, from rioghan ‘queen’; Regina used as translation.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Riona | 26 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Riona | 7 |
| US United States | — | 495 | 1 in 672K | 495 | Riona | 113 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Riona | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 544K | 12 | Riona | 84 |
| IE Ireland | #948 | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Riona | 45 |
| AL Albania | — | 19 | 1 in 162K | 18 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 376 | — | 1 |
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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Riona 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 English, Irish Gaelic; queen-like
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In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Riona Hazukib. 1975JPJapanese actress
- Riona Suzuneb. 1987JPJapanese AV idol
- Riona Hiroseb. 1989JPJapanese AV actress
- Riona Minamib. 1992JPJapanese AV idol
- Riona Kiuchib. 1994JPJapanese actor-singer
- Riona Manab. 1998JPJapanese AV idol
- Riona Matsudab. 2000JPJapanese fashion model and tarento
- Riona ImaizumiJPJapanese voice actress
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 495 | #20,756 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 376 | #1,420 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2006 | 29 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2005 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2011 | 26 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2009 | 26 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2008 | 22 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2013 | 20 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2007 | 20 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 18 | #7,539 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2016 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Riona mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps ‘queenly’, from rioghan ‘queen’; Regina used as translation. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Riona a male or female name?
- Riona 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 Riona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Riona in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riona.
- How common is the name Riona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 495 people named Riona in 2020, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.
- How common is Riona compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Riona is the 948th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Riona?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rionaThe 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, “Riona” — the 948th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.