Meaning not yet researched.
Rion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,625 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,625 in 1984; #4,018 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Rion in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,018 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,625.
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Rion: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,625 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 49 (2022).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Rion, making it the 4,018th most common boys’ name of the year, down 639 places from #3,379 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 35 boys named Rion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,625, reached in 1984. The most boys given the name in a single year was 49, in 2022. For comparison, it was #3,138 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Rion, making it the 14,572nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #4,877, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #18,574 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rion in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 7 babies. In all, 1,825 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 474 babies named Rion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 371 US boys were named Rion; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryan (991,747 babies since 1880), Rian (9,118 babies since 1880), Ren (3,634 babies since 1880) and Ryen (2,391 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Rion 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 | 6 | #14,572 | 27 | #4,018 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,379 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,999 | 34 | #3,462 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,307 | 49 | #2,707 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,979 | 47 | #2,724 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,921 | 45 | #2,746 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,280 | 32 | #3,552 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,191 | 27 | #3,974 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,237 | 39 | #3,056 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,321 | 36 | #3,212 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,574 | 37 | #3,138 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,877 | 44 | #2,741 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,920 | 34 | #3,250 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,985 | 39 | #2,994 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,993 | 26 | #3,966 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,681 | 36 | #3,169 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,436 | 43 | #2,835 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,032 | 33 | #3,409 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,437 | 38 | #3,072 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,354 | 38 | #2,971 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,760 | 24 | #3,918 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,138 | 33 | #3,059 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,147 | 27 | #3,426 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,083 | 38 | #2,592 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,181 | 29 | #3,125 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,498 | 33 | #2,792 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,041 | 31 | #2,779 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,747 | 36 | #2,436 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,887 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,517 | 26 | #2,896 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,227 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,492 | 20 | #3,441 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,620 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,995 | 18 | #3,576 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,737 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,144 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,974 | 20 | #3,067 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,932 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,204 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,341 | 15 | #3,238 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,279 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,625 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,480 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,447 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #3,000 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,513 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,018 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,643 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,760 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #3,059 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,874 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,772 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,862 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,312 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,152 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,395 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,901 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,449 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,401 |
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).