Ryan
Ryan stands at #99 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. First recorded 1906, best year 1985, 964,123 bearers across the whole run.
Ryan’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ryan, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ryan since 1906
Ryan peaked in 1985 at #12; #99 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ryan is most common
Among the states, Ryan takes its largest share in New Hampshire, 0.51% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with New Jersey and Connecticut next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ryan
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Joel
#219 in 2025 · Hebrew
Grant
#228 in 2025
Rachel
#250 in 2025 · Hebrew
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caroline
#96 in 2025 · Teutonic
Christian
#96 in 2025
Allison
#103 in 2025
Sarah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Ryan
How common is Ryan today?
Ryan stands at #99 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. The full curve since 1906 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Ryan have a meaning on record?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Ryan, so this page does not invent one.
Which names sit near Ryan?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Joel, Grant and Rachel, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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