Rhyan
Rhyan is given to both girls and boys: 48 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,288 among girls’ names and #5,790 among boys’, #4,778 among all names counting both); 4,609 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,540 Americans named Rhyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhyan?
#3,288 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhyan fell from #1,971 in 2015 to #3,288 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.1 to 29.9 per million.
203 babies in 2018, the peak
Rhyan peaked in 2018, when 203 babies were given it (165 girls, #1,370 among girls’ names). The 64 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,288 | 16 | #5,790 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,716 | 21 | #4,838 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,255 | 17 | #5,613 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,940 | 25 | #4,270 |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,580 | 26 | #4,097 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,675 | 30 | #3,631 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,579 | 36 | #3,241 |
| 2018 | 165 | #1,370 | 38 | #3,090 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,473 | 30 | #3,649 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,753 | 30 | #3,662 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 102 | #1,971 | 30 | #3,665 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,917 | 35 | #3,200 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,254 | 41 | #2,832 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,829 | 37 | #3,101 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,670 | 48 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,872 | 66 | #2,063 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,609 | 56 | #2,343 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,616 | 51 | #2,498 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,866 | 47 | #2,636 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,757 | 51 | #2,440 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,921 | 46 | #2,481 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,548 | 39 | #2,728 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,387 | 34 | #2,906 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,439 | 26 | #3,422 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,277 | 36 | #2,666 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,804 | 33 | #2,786 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,492 | 36 | #2,498 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,472 | 33 | #2,587 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,519 | 26 | #2,958 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,547 | 26 | #2,890 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,629 | 29 | #2,605 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,636 | 31 | #2,481 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,531 | 38 | #2,112 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,644 | 22 | #3,081 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,593 | 34 | #2,178 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,225 | 23 | #2,847 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,324 | 30 | #2,277 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,003 | 22 | #2,661 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,017 | 16 | #3,162 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,731 | 23 | #2,413 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,953 | 29 | #2,004 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,266 | 13 | #3,407 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,120 | 17 | #2,766 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,844 | 16 | #2,946 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,952 | 21 | #2,395 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,652 | 10 | #4,066 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,738 | 9 | #4,323 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,428 | 13 | #3,187 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,648 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,330 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,198 | 11 | #3,388 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,831 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,719 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,577 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,802 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,888 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rhyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,609 Americans recorded as Rhyan, 67% are girls and 33% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhyan, and how old are they?
4,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,609 Americans ever recorded as Rhyan. The median Rhyan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,462 people named Rhyan (2,288 women and girls, 1,174 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,909 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,780 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rhyan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,731 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,339 | 0.4× |
Where Rhyan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rhyan is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1969 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rhyan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,356 babies since 1880, Rhyan is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 326 babies (20%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rhyan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rhyan and names like it
- Compare Rhyan and RyannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRhyan peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Rhyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rhyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.