Meaning not yet researched.
Ryder: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,710 in 2025. Its best rank was #95 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #95 in 2014; #133 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Ryder in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#133 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #95.
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Ryder: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,710 boys in 2025. Peak: #95 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 4,165 (2015).
In 2025, 2,710 US boys were named Ryder, making it the 133rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #134 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 2,703 boys named Ryder in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #95, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,165, in 2015. For comparison, it was #98 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryder in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 69,088 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 37,206 babies named Ryder.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31,898 US boys were named Ryder; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,893. In 2025 that was about 1 in 630 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ryder ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #41 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 16 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rider (1,293 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reeder, Rydar and Reider 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: Reeder (87), Rydar (30), Reider (17), Rydder (17).
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 Ryder 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 33 | #41 | #52 |
| Hawaii | 17 | #46 | #57 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #53 | #68 |
| New Hampshire | 24 | #59 | #90 |
| Kentucky | 71 | #64 | #70 |
| Alabama | 68 | #69 | #127 |
| Louisiana | 56 | #84 | #86 |
| Arkansas | 37 | #86 | #81 |
| Idaho | 27 | #87 | #37 |
| Montana | 14 | #89 | #27 |
| Tennessee | 95 | #91 | #89 |
| Mississippi | 31 | #92 | #89 |
| Missouri | 69 | #93 | #71 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | #96 | #115 |
| Nevada | 32 | #96 | #91 |
| Utah | 52 | #99 | #70 |
| Oregon | 37 | #105 | #45 |
| Ohio | 125 | #106 | #84 |
| Delaware | 10 | #113 | #199 |
| Indiana | 67 | #121 | #84 |
| North Carolina | 101 | #121 | #114 |
| South Dakota | 11 | #122 | #63 |
| Michigan | 83 | #122 | #97 |
| Florida | 176 | #124 | #140 |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | #126 | #86 |
| New Mexico | 16 | #127 | #133 |
| Iowa | 32 | #131 | #90 |
| Washington | 61 | #133 | #71 |
| Maine | 10 | #138 | #87 |
| Arizona | 64 | #140 | #107 |
| South Carolina | 40 | #142 | #109 |
| Georgia | 83 | #144 | #125 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #145 | #89 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #146 | #46 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #148 | #35 |
| Illinois | 80 | #150 | #141 |
| Minnesota | 43 | #155 | #102 |
| Virginia | 57 | #158 | #94 |
| Alaska | 6 | #162 | #52 |
| Texas | 226 | #162 | #133 |
| California | 238 | #163 | #100 |
| Kansas | 24 | #165 | #99 |
| Massachusetts | 41 | #165 | #129 |
| Wisconsin | 34 | #184 | #126 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #185 | #129 |
| Colorado | 36 | #196 | #67 |
| Maryland | 30 | #198 | #141 |
| New York | 99 | #199 | #140 |
| New Jersey | 46 | #210 | #140 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,815 | 2,710 | #133 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,325 | 2,703 | #134 |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,211 | 2,838 | #128 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,182 | 3,326 | #115 |
| 2021 | 257 | #998 | 3,436 | #111 |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,039 | 3,382 | #108 |
| 2019 | 167 | #1,356 | 3,325 | #116 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,828 | 3,015 | #131 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,178 | 3,270 | #122 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,795 | 3,893 | #102 |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,619 | 4,165 | #98 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,658 | 4,113 | #95 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,937 | 3,791 | #103 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,820 | 3,821 | #100 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,651 | 3,710 | #108 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,507 | 2,967 | #135 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,660 | 2,721 | #146 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,682 | 1,936 | #204 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,497 | 1,755 | #217 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,519 | 1,346 | #257 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,989 | 1,110 | #296 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,781 | 832 | #341 |
| 2003 | — | — | 305 | #653 |
| 2002 | — | — | 246 | #723 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,381 | 174 | #905 |
| 2000 | — | — | 203 | #797 |
| 1999 | — | — | 162 | #919 |
| 1998 | — | — | 155 | #920 |
| 1997 | — | — | 181 | #813 |
| 1996 | — | — | 125 | #1,005 |
| 1995 | — | — | 143 | #928 |
| 1994 | — | — | 135 | #951 |
| 1993 | — | — | 80 | #1,276 |
| 1992 | — | — | 73 | #1,327 |
| 1991 | — | — | 42 | #1,892 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,206 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,766 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,127 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,105 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,215 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,165 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,414 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,771 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,079 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,872 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,397 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,875 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,900 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,642 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,488 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,734 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,041 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,176 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,404 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,602 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,490 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,291 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,631 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,314 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,599 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,984 |
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).