Riot
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 62 babies a year in the US.
Riot by the numbers
Riot was given to 62 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 73 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Riot
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Riot. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rioriver305 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Riot
Names that are said the same way as Riot, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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