Meaning not yet researched.
Ryu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,320 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,320 in 2012; #2,352 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ryu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,352 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,320.
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Ryu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,320 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 130 (2012).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Ryu, making it the 2,352nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 917 places from #1,435 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 127 boys named Ryu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,320, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #2,347 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryu in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,690 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 741 babies named Ryu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 753 US boys were named Ryu; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ryu ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,231 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Rio (7,812 babies since 1880), Riya (6,273 babies since 1880) and Ria (4,115 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ryu 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,231 | #1,311 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,883 | #2,077 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 59 | #2,352 |
| 2024 | — | — | 127 | #1,435 |
| 2023 | — | — | 75 | #2,028 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,313 | 73 | #2,077 |
| 2021 | — | — | 77 | #1,955 |
| 2020 | — | — | 72 | #1,992 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,127 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,439 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,911 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #2,005 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,347 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,975 |
| 2013 | — | — | 76 | #1,875 |
| 2012 | — | — | 130 | #1,320 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,919 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,139 |
| 2009 | — | — | 61 | #2,197 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,427 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,433 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,729 |
| 2005 | — | — | 32 | #3,223 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,617 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,428 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,758 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,264 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,667 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,811 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,112 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,417 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,893 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,317 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,698 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,301 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,383 |
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).