Meaning not yet researched.
Ryan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,532 in 2025. Its best rank was #11 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #11 in 1991; #99 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Ryan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#99 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #11.
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Ryan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,532 boys in 2025. Peak: #11 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 29,905 (1985).
In 2025, 3,532 US boys were named Ryan, making it the 99th most common boys’ name of the year, down 12 places from #87 in 2024. That is 374 fewer than the 3,906 boys named Ryan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #11, reached in 1991. The most boys given the name in a single year was 29,905, in 1985. For comparison, it was #39 in 2015 and #690 in 1950.
In 2025, 393 US girls were named Ryan, making it the 715th most common girls’ name of the year, down 12 places from #703 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 400 girls named Ryan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #342, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 869, in 2018. For comparison, it was #476 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryan in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 10 babies. In all, 991,747 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 285,116 babies named Ryan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 54,996 US boys were named Ryan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 8,261. In 2025 that was about 1 in 484 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ryan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #44 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 13 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rian (9,118 babies since 1880), Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880), Ryann (12,109 babies since 1880) and Ryne (4,404 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ryane, Riann and Renn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ry.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ryane (904), Riann (773), Renn (627), Riane (539), Rin (516), Reann (476), Reyaan (456), Rynn (422), Rihan (410), Reyn (348), Ryn (338), Rein (278), and more.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 185 | #44 | #12 |
| New York | 334 | #45 | #18 |
| Massachusetts | 117 | #49 | #12 |
| Connecticut | 61 | #52 | #14 |
| New Hampshire | 23 | #64 | #28 |
| Florida | 295 | #68 | #44 |
| Virginia | 116 | #73 | #41 |
| Maryland | 73 | #73 | #23 |
| Pennsylvania | 158 | #76 | #20 |
| California | 456 | #80 | #37 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #89 | #30 |
| Delaware | 12 | #90 | #29 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | #96 | #55 |
| Illinois | 114 | #103 | #38 |
| Colorado | 64 | #109 | #51 |
| Texas | 353 | #112 | #57 |
| Oregon | 34 | #118 | #78 |
| Washington | 65 | #123 | #59 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #123 | #21 |
| South Carolina | 44 | #125 | #77 |
| Georgia | 90 | #134 | #63 |
| Tennessee | 71 | #137 | #81 |
| North Carolina | 90 | #140 | #65 |
| Utah | 37 | #146 | #62 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #147 | #92 |
| Missouri | 48 | #148 | #67 |
| Michigan | 67 | #152 | #54 |
| Nevada | 21 | #153 | #55 |
| Arizona | 59 | #153 | #53 |
| Louisiana | 34 | #153 | #57 |
| Ohio | 90 | #155 | #49 |
| Iowa | 28 | #155 | #66 |
| Wisconsin | 41 | #159 | #78 |
| Alaska | 6 | #161 | #63 |
| Idaho | 18 | #161 | #67 |
| Indiana | 52 | #162 | #74 |
| Alabama | 36 | #162 | #83 |
| Maine | 8 | #168 | #45 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #173 | #86 |
| Kansas | 23 | #173 | #66 |
| Nebraska | 15 | #183 | #54 |
| Mississippi | 17 | #188 | #101 |
| Kentucky | 30 | #190 | #66 |
| Montana | 7 | #195 | #78 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #210 | #52 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #251 | #98 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #261 | #59 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #266 | #54 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #366 | #74 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 393 | #715 | 3,532 | #99 |
| 2024 | 400 | #703 | 3,906 | #87 |
| 2023 | 433 | #677 | 4,035 | #83 |
| 2022 | 515 | #580 | 4,403 | #74 |
| 2021 | 635 | #496 | 4,735 | #66 |
| 2020 | 684 | #451 | 5,348 | #57 |
| 2019 | 773 | #401 | 6,127 | #54 |
| 2018 | 869 | #363 | 6,943 | #46 |
| 2017 | 773 | #410 | 7,706 | #44 |
| 2016 | 688 | #463 | 8,261 | #40 |
| 2015 | 680 | #476 | 8,548 | #39 |
| 2014 | 606 | #513 | 9,098 | #37 |
| 2013 | 438 | #646 | 9,895 | #30 |
| 2012 | 467 | #616 | 10,944 | #26 |
| 2011 | 506 | #575 | 11,503 | #25 |
| 2010 | 465 | #631 | 11,981 | #23 |
| 2009 | 527 | #579 | 13,122 | #20 |
| 2008 | 575 | #537 | 14,686 | #18 |
| 2007 | 706 | #457 | 15,722 | #16 |
| 2006 | 689 | #459 | 16,434 | #14 |
| 2005 | 676 | #450 | 17,990 | #14 |
| 2004 | 700 | #435 | 19,496 | #12 |
| 2003 | 598 | #487 | 19,578 | #13 |
| 2002 | 519 | #531 | 17,658 | #16 |
| 2001 | 465 | #560 | 18,289 | #15 |
| 2000 | 448 | #582 | 20,269 | #13 |
| 1999 | 454 | #557 | 21,014 | #12 |
| 1998 | 477 | #529 | 20,198 | #17 |
| 1997 | 360 | #624 | 20,527 | #16 |
| 1996 | 382 | #600 | 21,809 | #16 |
| 1995 | 354 | #621 | 23,089 | #15 |
| 1994 | 361 | #617 | 24,063 | #16 |
| 1993 | 350 | #642 | 26,727 | #13 |
| 1992 | 377 | #603 | 27,022 | #13 |
| 1991 | 431 | #548 | 27,536 | #11 |
| 1990 | 451 | #526 | 29,263 | #11 |
| 1989 | 566 | #435 | 28,408 | #13 |
| 1988 | 615 | #391 | 27,747 | #13 |
| 1987 | 698 | #344 | 28,490 | #13 |
| 1986 | 703 | #342 | 29,524 | #11 |
| 1985 | 570 | #394 | 29,905 | #12 |
| 1984 | 543 | #396 | 28,724 | #12 |
| 1983 | 610 | #370 | 27,849 | #13 |
| 1982 | 596 | #388 | 26,685 | #13 |
| 1981 | 675 | #348 | 26,811 | #13 |
| 1980 | 602 | #384 | 24,795 | #15 |
| 1979 | 558 | #390 | 23,212 | #14 |
| 1978 | 580 | #368 | 21,322 | #14 |
| 1977 | 362 | #516 | 21,246 | #16 |
| 1976 | 163 | #841 | 17,484 | #16 |
| 1975 | 139 | #927 | 15,296 | #23 |
| 1974 | 125 | #983 | 13,179 | #25 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,251 | 10,511 | #30 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,622 | 8,878 | #39 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,928 | 6,184 | #51 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,918 | 2,323 | #140 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,587 | 2,245 | #135 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,738 | 2,166 | #131 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,444 | 1,927 | #147 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,128 | 1,573 | #171 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,374 | 1,084 | #221 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,599 | 515 | #347 |
| 1963 | — | — | 647 | #310 |
| 1962 | — | — | 397 | #405 |
| 1961 | — | — | 388 | #402 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,120 | 380 | #408 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,470 | 400 | #397 |
| 1958 | — | — | 308 | #446 |
| 1957 | — | — | 278 | #462 |
| 1956 | — | — | 192 | #549 |
| 1955 | — | — | 176 | #554 |
| 1954 | — | — | 132 | #640 |
| 1953 | — | — | 145 | #604 |
| 1952 | — | — | 126 | #626 |
| 1951 | — | — | 105 | #681 |
| 1950 | — | — | 99 | #690 |
| 1949 | — | — | 102 | #680 |
| 1948 | — | — | 82 | #751 |
| 1947 | — | — | 102 | #689 |
| 1946 | — | — | 65 | #818 |
| 1945 | — | — | 35 | #1,118 |
| 1944 | — | — | 23 | #1,433 |
| 1943 | — | — | 34 | #1,181 |
| 1942 | — | — | 26 | #1,376 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,073 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,674 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,483 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,829 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,976 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #2,048 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,375 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,104 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,348 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,080 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,987 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,155 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,891 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,249 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,107 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,282 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,302 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,800 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,907 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,484 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #2,044 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,580 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,095 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,514 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,163 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,455 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,424 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,464 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,708 |
| 1906 | — | — | 10 | #844 |
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).