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Riyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 85 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,735 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,735 in 2022; #1,862 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Riyan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,862 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,735.
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Riyan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 85 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,735 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 97 (2022).
In 2025, 85 US boys were named Riyan, making it the 1,862nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 604 places from #2,466 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 56 boys named Riyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,735, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #2,188 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Riyan, making it the 11,723rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,197 places from #7,526 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 15 girls named Riyan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,835, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #4,286 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riyan in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 1,832 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 933 babies named Riyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 765 US boys were named Riyan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,095 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riyan ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #1,049 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), Ryann (12,109 babies since 1880), Rian (9,118 babies since 1880) and Ryen (2,391 babies since 1880).
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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 Riyan in the open dataset we use.
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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #1,049 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,114 | #1,838 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,152 | #1,079 |
| New York | 8 | #1,380 | #2,053 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,446 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,042 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,723 | 85 | #1,862 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,526 | 56 | #2,466 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,704 | 86 | #1,862 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,655 | 97 | #1,735 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,210 | 80 | #1,910 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,327 | 71 | #2,016 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,159 | 74 | #1,994 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,835 | 84 | #1,818 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,290 | 73 | #1,972 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,649 | 59 | #2,272 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,286 | 63 | #2,188 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,705 | 45 | #2,698 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,321 | 34 | #3,251 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,470 | 39 | #2,995 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,225 | 32 | #3,414 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,839 | 19 | #4,997 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,763 | 20 | #4,892 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,917 | 20 | #4,862 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,438 | 19 | #4,945 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,777 | 8 | #9,387 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,761 | 14 | #5,815 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,155 | 11 | #6,885 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,519 | 6 | #10,593 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,952 | 9 | #7,506 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,366 | 7 | #9,027 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,021 | 8 | #8,052 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,326 | 7 | #8,526 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,029 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,218 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,591 |
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).