Ryan
Ryan is ranked 87th among boys in 2024 (3,892 births). Its best rank was 11th, in 1986, 1990–1991.
- Rank in 2024
- #87down 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,8920.23% of boys
- Peak year
- 198529,909 births
- Best rank
- #11first in 1986
- Since 1906
- 987,785people given the name
The story in the numbers
960,560 boys have been named Ryan in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 29,909 births — 1.6% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 37 → 87).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 54 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 27,225 girls have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ryan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 55 | |
| 1920s | 111 | |
| 1930s | 134 | |
| 1940s | 500 | |
| 1950s | 1,961 | |
| 1960s | 11,327 | |
| 1970s | 139,643 | |
| 1980s | 278,954 | |
| 1990s | 241,240 | |
| 2000s | 173,238 | |
| 2010s | 90,989 | |
| 2020s | 22,398 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Ryan was the 12th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Ryan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jamelpeak 1988
- Joshuapeak 1989
- Jerrettpeak 1980
- Marquepeak 1988
- Antwonpeak 1990
- Antwaunpeak 1986
- Jamallpeak 1980
- Dejuanpeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.