Entry № 8716 · Arabic origin

Rihanna Rihanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ree-AH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Sweet basil (Rihanna, Fenty founder, Bajan billionaire)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "sweet basil (rihanna, fenty founder, bajan billionaire)".

Rihanna (ريحانة) is from the Arabic rayhana (sweet basil) — the fragrant herb mentioned in the Quran. Her co-founded Savage X Fenty lingerie line was valued at $3 billion in 2021. Net worth $1.4 billion (Forbes, 2023). Barbadian National Hero (2021). Headlined Super Bowl LVII halftime show (2023).

Sweet basil (Rihanna, Fenty founder, Bajan billionaire) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ريحانة
Transliteration
Rayḥāna
Pronunciation
/ riˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rihanna stands.

Rihanna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rihannas before her.

Real people
Rihanna
Barbadian singer and Fenty billionaire.
born 1988
In fiction
Rihanna
Various film cameos.

Names connected to Rihanna.

The number behind Rihanna.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rihanna reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.