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Riata

Girl · ree-AH-tuh · Spanish

Riata is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “lasso, rope”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Riata mean?

Spanish: variant of Spanish reata

“lasso, rope”

Say it
ree-AH-tuh

Is Riata a girl's or a boy's name?

Riata is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Riata in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Riata, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Riata in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 14 in 20142025
Riata in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
20228#11,225
20219#10,287
20206#13,448
201910#9,730
201810#9,801
20178#11,611
20165#16,210
20156#14,477
201414#8,050
20137#13,145
201210#10,424
20110–
20105#16,985
20090–
20080–
20075#17,630
20066#15,147
20056#14,495
20040–
20030–
20025#15,426
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19906#11,403

Names like Riata

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