Given name & surname · also Japanese
Rie
Rie is a feminine given name from Japanese, ultimately from Dutch. It is used in English, Dutch, and Danish.
Original Japanese莉絵
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rie comes from Japanese, and ultimately from Dutch.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Dutch usage, Rie is a diminutive of Marie.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 0 boys · 84 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,264 as a first name in 2020; 100 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rie’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Rie is a diminutive of Marie. In Japanese usage, Rie is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 李依. In Japanese usage, Rie is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 梨恵.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Rie has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Dutch roots to each of them.
Dutchwhere Rie comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Rie
- Rie YamakiJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Rie AzamiJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Rie UsuiJapanese association football player (born 1989)
- Rie MastenbroekDutch swimmer (1919–2003)
- Rie TakahashiJapanese voice actressborn 1994
- Rie KugimiyaJapanese voice actressborn 1979
- Rie TanakaJapanese voice actress (born 1979)
- Rie RasmussenDanish actor and directorborn 1976
- Rie KanetoJapanese swimmerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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