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Baby Boy Names - Ryan
The name Ryan is of Irish origin, and means descendent of Rian.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Ryan has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to
2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social
Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular
names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ryan
| Use of the Name Ryan for Boys During the Last ... |
| 125 Years |
50 Years |
25 Years |
10 Years |
5 Years |
2 Years |
1 Year |
| 767,528 |
766,560 |
614,500 |
201,438 |
94,871 |
38,760 |
19,269 |
The table below indicates the number of times the name Ryan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Ryan first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1906, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ryan
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| 1906 | 845 | 10 | | |
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| 1946 | 811 | 67 | | |
| 1947 | 691 | 101 | | |
| 1948 | 750 | 81 | | |
| 1949 | 679 | 102 | | |
| 1950 | 694 | 98 | | |
| 1951 | 673 | 107 | | |
| 1952 | 630 | 124 | | |
| 1953 | 602 | 144 | | |
| 1954 | 637 | 134 | | |
| 1955 | 552 | 177 | | |
| 1956 | 544 | 191 | | |
| 1957 | 463 | 276 | | |
| 1958 | 446 | 310 | | |
| 1959 | 396 | 397 | | |
| 1960 | 408 | 378 | | |
| 1961 | 400 | 391 | | |
| 1962 | 405 | 400 | | |
| 1963 | 310 | 645 | | |
| 1964 | 345 | 519 | | |
| 1965 | 221 | 1,087 | | |
| 1966 | 172 | 1,565 | | |
| 1967 | 147 | 1,928 | | |
| 1968 | 131 | 2,169 | | |
| 1969 | 136 | 2,236 | | |
| 1970 | 140 | 2,320 | | |
| 1971 | 51 | 6,184 | | |
| 1972 | 39 | 8,863 | | |
| 1973 | 30 | 10,472 | | |
| 1974 | 25 | 13,160 | 983 | 125 |
| 1975 | 23 | 15,261 | 930 | 138 |
| 1976 | 16 | 17,465 | 846 | 162 |
| 1977 | 16 | 21,212 | 515 | 362 |
| 1978 | 14 | 21,291 | 368 | 581 |
| 1979 | 14 | 23,163 | 390 | 558 |
| 1980 | 15 | 24,743 | 378 | 603 |
| 1981 | 13 | 26,781 | 348 | 673 |
| 1982 | 13 | 26,648 | 386 | 597 |
| 1983 | 13 | 27,800 | 369 | 608 |
| 1984 | 12 | 28,694 | 397 | 541 |
| 1985 | 12 | 29,873 | 396 | 569 |
| 1986 | 11 | 29,475 | 340 | 703 |
| 1987 | 13 | 28,457 | 344 | 699 |
| 1988 | 13 | 27,709 | 391 | 614 |
| 1989 | 13 | 28,398 | 435 | 567 |
| 1990 | 11 | 29,225 | 526 | 451 |
| 1991 | 11 | 27,519 | 542 | 432 |
| 1992 | 13 | 26,996 | 604 | 376 |
| 1993 | 13 | 26,700 | 642 | 350 |
| 1994 | 16 | 24,044 | 618 | 359 |
| 1995 | 15 | 23,085 | 621 | 356 |
| 1996 | 16 | 21,795 | 599 | 382 |
| 1997 | 16 | 20,510 | 622 | 360 |
| 1998 | 17 | 20,184 | 527 | 477 |
| 1999 | 12 | 20,993 | 556 | 453 |
| 2000 | 13 | 20,240 | 578 | 448 |
| 2001 | 15 | 18,262 | 559 | 464 |
| 2002 | 16 | 17,609 | 529 | 517 |
| 2003 | 13 | 19,491 | 486 | 598 |
| 2004 | 12 | 19,269 | 436 | 689 |
| Totals: | | 767,528 | | 14,812 |
During the last 125 years, parents have used Ryan as a boy's name about 98% of the time and less frequently (about 1% of the time) as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ryan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 86 times during the last 125 years.
See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.
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