Meaning not yet researched.
Rider: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,996 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,996 in 2011; #3,735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rider in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,735 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,996.
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Rider: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,996 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 71 (2014).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Rider, making it the 3,735th most common boys’ name of the year, up 430 places from #4,165 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 26 boys named Rider in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,996, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,222 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rider in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 9 babies. In all, 1,293 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 549 babies named Rider.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 359 US boys were named Rider; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryder (69,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reidar 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reidar (16).
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 Rider in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,735 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,165 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,711 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,907 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,897 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,790 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,842 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,540 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,937 |
| 2016 | — | — | 45 | #2,716 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,222 |
| 2014 | — | — | 71 | #2,015 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,557 |
| 2012 | — | — | 69 | #2,028 |
| 2011 | — | — | 69 | #1,996 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,503 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,027 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,228 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,202 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,920 |
| 2005 | — | — | 38 | #2,835 |
| 2004 | — | — | 59 | #2,046 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,606 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,428 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,974 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,277 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,082 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,680 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,138 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,984 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,666 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,869 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,123 |
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).