Meaning not yet researched.
Rian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #905 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #905 in 1979; #1,250 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Rian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,250 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #905.
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Rian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #905 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 202 (2021).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Rian, making it the 1,250th most common boys’ name of the year, up 18 places from #1,268 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 156 boys named Rian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #905, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 202, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,394 in 2015 and #4,103 in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Rian, making it the 4,730th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,514 places from #3,216 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 50 girls named Rian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,487, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #2,163 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rian in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 7 babies. In all, 9,118 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,273 babies named Rian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,616 US boys were named Rian; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 202. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rian ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #461 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryan (991,747 babies since 1880), Ian (258,479 babies since 1880), Riana (2,286 babies since 1880) and Ryann (12,109 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reion are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reion (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rian in the open dataset we use.
Rian is listed as a nickname for Adrian.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 11 | #461 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #558 | — |
| New York | 23 | #658 | #1,320 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #691 | #700 |
| California | 22 | #1,007 | #1,732 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,112 | #1,257 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,120 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,206 | #1,133 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,249 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,251 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,326 | #1,347 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,542 | #1,430 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,730 | 160 | #1,250 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,216 | 156 | #1,268 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,041 | 170 | #1,190 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,509 | 153 | #1,268 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,340 | 202 | #1,063 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,238 | 165 | #1,169 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,785 | 126 | #1,405 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,703 | 148 | #1,251 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,070 | 183 | #1,077 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,113 | 153 | #1,228 |
| 2015 | 88 | #2,163 | 124 | #1,394 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,136 | 130 | #1,339 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,255 | 121 | #1,397 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,059 | 123 | #1,374 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,294 | 111 | #1,474 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,250 | 106 | #1,533 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,144 | 123 | #1,387 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,018 | 140 | #1,249 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,710 | 128 | #1,331 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,487 | 120 | #1,358 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,587 | 93 | #1,534 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,638 | 104 | #1,382 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,945 | 126 | #1,185 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,982 | 85 | #1,495 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,030 | 98 | #1,335 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,073 | 95 | #1,350 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,702 | 70 | #1,579 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,452 | 90 | #1,334 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,219 | 78 | #1,412 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,304 | 66 | #1,529 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,614 | 52 | #1,729 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,289 | 63 | #1,511 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,441 | 61 | #1,520 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,078 | 68 | #1,381 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,582 | 78 | #1,270 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,883 | 90 | #1,145 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,558 | 63 | #1,390 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,081 | 66 | #1,269 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,146 | 70 | #1,150 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,892 | 70 | #1,135 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,639 | 50 | #1,387 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,611 | 70 | #1,075 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,892 | 76 | #1,019 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,685 | 82 | #1,004 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,825 | 80 | #1,019 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,581 | 70 | #1,087 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,209 | 94 | #905 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,224 | 79 | #975 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,502 | 83 | #936 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,113 | 41 | #1,407 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,901 | 52 | #1,176 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,714 | 53 | #1,132 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,238 | 38 | #1,367 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,271 | 33 | #1,497 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,286 | 21 | #2,035 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,925 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,392 |
| 1968 | — | — | 23 | #1,683 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,730 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,592 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,828 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,341 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,393 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,896 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,853 |
| 1958 | — | — | 15 | #2,155 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,984 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,349 |
| 1955 | — | — | 28 | #1,479 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,399 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,665 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,103 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,254 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).