Given name

Rijad

Rijad is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Rijad comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Rijad through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2000
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012320002025Highest share 20000.0
Rijad in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2000–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

People named Rijad

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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