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Ryan
Pronounced /ˈɹaɪən/
Rank in 2024
#87
Born in 2024
3,892
Peak year
1985 · #12
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:399 in 2024 (#701)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,892 boys were named Ryan, about 1 in every 441.
- It peaked in 1985 with 29,909 babies, ranked #12.
- It first shows up in the records in 1906.
- 960,560 boys have been named Ryan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ryan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 6.4Gen X1965–80
- 14.2Millennials1981–96
- 8.6Gen Z1997–12
- 3.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 156 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 303 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,640 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 173,440 babies, 6.37 per 1,000. Millennials: 433,657 babies, 14.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 269,405 babies, 8.58 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 78,959 babies, 3.63 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A unisex given name.
- A male given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in English-speaking countries from the 1970s to the 1990s.
- A male given name from Arabic رَيَّان (rayyān). Sometimes written and pronounced as Ryan in English due to the phonetic similarity with the Arabic name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɹaɪən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ryan, CC BY-SA 4.0.