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Ryan: popularity and history

Explore how often Ryan appears in published U.S. birth-name records. Counts describe recorded births, not how many people with this name are alive today.

Female records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 393 births and rank 715.

First published birth year
1959
Total published births, 1959–2025
27,624
Best annual rank
342 in 1986
Ryan · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.002.555.11195919922025

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Ryan · female records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
2025393715
2024400703
2023433677
2022515580
2021635496
2020684451
2019773401
2018869363
2017773410
2016688463
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Ryan · female records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
2025393715
2024400703
2023433677
2022515580
2021635496
2020684451
2019773401
2018869363
2017773410
2016688463

Male records

Latest dataset year: 2025. Most recent published observation for this name: 2025, with 3,532 births and rank 99.

First published birth year
1906
Total published births, 1906–2025
964,123
Best annual rank
11 in 1986, 1990, 1991
Ryan · annual births per 10,000 published births in this recorded-sex population
0.0080.90161.81190619662025

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Published observations

Up to ten most recent published years, newest first. These may not be consecutive or recent calendar years. Missing records are unknown, not zero.

Ryan · male records · most recent published years
YearBirthsRank
20253,53299
20243,90687
20234,03583
20224,40374
20214,73566
20205,34857
20196,12754
20186,94346
20177,70644
20168,26140
Latest ten dataset years (2016–2025)

Not published means no released observation; it does not establish zero births.

Ryan · male records · latest calendar years, including gaps
YearBirthsRank
20253,53299
20243,90687
20234,03583
20224,40374
20214,73566
20205,34857
20196,12754
20186,94346
20177,70644
20168,26140

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Alphabetical neighbors, not evidence of shared meaning, origin or popularity. Each spelling has its own recorded history.

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How to read these figures

An absent observation is not zero: small counts are withheld, and no published count may mean no births or a suppressed count. Early years are less complete. Recorded sex is a source category, not a rule about who may use a name. Annual ranks order published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. National and state totals need not match.

These records describe usage. They do not establish a name’s meaning, origin, ethnicity or pronunciation.