Rian
Rian is given to both girls and boys: 29 girls and 160 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,729 among girls’ names and #1,250 among boys’, #2,299 among all names counting both); 9,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Rian every year since 2008.
An estimated 8,850 Americans named Rian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rian is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “descendant of Riaghan /Rian” (literally).
A re-Gaelicisation of the given name Ryan, which comes from the Irish surname Ó Riaghain /Ó Riain (literally “descendant of Riaghan /Rian”). Thus, reviving the original Irish given name Riaghan /Rian.
/ˈraɪən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rian?
#1,250 among boys’ names, 2025
Rian rose from #1,394 in 2015 to #1,250 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 64.7 to 93.7 per million.
280 babies in 2021, the peak
Rian peaked in 2021, when 280 babies were given it (202 boys, #1,063 among boys’ names). The 189 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,729 | 160 | #1,250 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,216 | 156 | #1,268 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,041 | 170 | #1,190 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,509 | 153 | #1,268 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,340 | 202 | #1,063 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,238 | 165 | #1,169 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,785 | 126 | #1,405 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,703 | 148 | #1,251 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,070 | 183 | #1,077 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,113 | 153 | #1,228 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,163 | 124 | #1,394 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,136 | 130 | #1,339 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,255 | 121 | #1,397 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,059 | 123 | #1,374 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,294 | 111 | #1,474 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,250 | 106 | #1,533 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,144 | 123 | #1,387 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,018 | 140 | #1,249 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,710 | 128 | #1,331 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,487 | 120 | #1,358 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,587 | 93 | #1,532 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,637 | 104 | #1,380 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,944 | 126 | #1,184 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,980 | 85 | #1,492 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,026 | 98 | #1,331 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,069 | 95 | #1,347 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,700 | 70 | #1,576 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,449 | 90 | #1,331 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,216 | 78 | #1,409 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,301 | 66 | #1,526 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,609 | 52 | #1,724 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,284 | 63 | #1,506 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,436 | 61 | #1,515 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,073 | 68 | #1,376 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,576 | 78 | #1,264 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,878 | 90 | #1,140 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,553 | 63 | #1,385 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,076 | 66 | #1,265 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,143 | 70 | #1,149 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,891 | 70 | #1,134 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,638 | 50 | #1,386 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,610 | 70 | #1,074 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,891 | 76 | #1,019 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,685 | 82 | #1,004 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,825 | 80 | #1,019 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,581 | 70 | #1,087 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,209 | 94 | #905 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,224 | 79 | #975 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,502 | 83 | #936 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,111 | 41 | #1,407 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,899 | 52 | #1,176 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,713 | 53 | #1,132 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,236 | 38 | #1,367 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,269 | 33 | #1,497 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,284 | 21 | #2,034 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 22 | #1,924 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 14 | #2,391 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 23 | #1,682 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 10 | #2,729 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 11 | #2,591 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,939 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,808 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 20 | #1,827 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 13 | #2,340 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 13 | #2,392 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 19 | #1,895 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 20 | #1,852 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 15 | #2,154 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #2,983 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 13 | #2,348 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 28 | #1,478 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,398 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,663 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,101 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,253 |
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 Rian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,118 Americans recorded as Rian, 38% are girls and 62% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rian, and how old are they?
8,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,118 Americans ever recorded as Rian. The median Rian alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 7,238 people named Rian (2,929 women and girls, 4,309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 132 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 791 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,710 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,020 |
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 Rian born?
The states with the most babies named Rian are New York, California and Texas, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #658 | 0.8× |
| California | 22 | #1,007 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,542 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,112 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #461 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #691 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,206 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,251 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,326 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,249 | 0.1× |
Where Rian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rian is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1948 it was given 2.1 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 boys’ 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 Rian 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 1,011,480 babies since 1880, Rian is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 189 of their 4,392 babies (4.3%), 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 Rian
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 Rian and names like it
- Compare Rian and RyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRian peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rian since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Rian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.