Riyan
Riyan was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,862 among boys’ names; 1,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Riyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riyan?
#1,862 among boys’ names, 2025
Riyan rose from #2,188 in 2015 to #1,862 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.9 to 49.8 per million.
144 babies in 2018, the peak
Riyan peaked in 2018, when 144 babies were given it (84 boys, #1,817 among boys’ names). The 93 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,719 | 85 | #1,862 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,522 | 56 | #2,466 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,699 | 86 | #1,862 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,652 | 97 | #1,735 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,206 | 80 | #1,909 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,327 | 71 | #2,016 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,158 | 74 | #1,993 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,834 | 84 | #1,817 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,290 | 73 | #1,972 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,649 | 59 | #2,272 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,285 | 63 | #2,188 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,703 | 45 | #2,696 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,319 | 34 | #3,249 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,468 | 39 | #2,993 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,224 | 32 | #3,413 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,838 | 19 | #4,994 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,760 | 20 | #4,890 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,914 | 20 | #4,858 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,434 | 19 | #4,943 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,775 | 8 | #9,381 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,756 | 14 | #5,809 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,150 | 11 | #6,879 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,512 | 6 | #10,586 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,946 | 9 | #7,499 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,359 | 7 | #9,020 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,013 | 8 | #8,044 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,317 | 7 | #8,519 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #9,023 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #10,211 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 7 | #7,585 |
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 Riyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,832 Americans recorded as Riyan, 38% are girls and 62% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 85 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Riyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riyan, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,832 Americans ever recorded as Riyan. The median Riyan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,142 people named Riyan (499 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,230 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 448 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,360 |
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 Riyan born?
The states with the most babies named Riyan are California, Texas and New York, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,114 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,042 | 0.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,380 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,152 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,446 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,049 | 0.1× |
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 Riyan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Riyan?
Riyan is a less common spelling of Ryan: SSA has recorded 1,832 Riyan and 991,747 Ryan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,011,480 babies since 1880, Riyan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 4,392 babies (2.1%), the third most given that year.
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 Riyan
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 Riyan and names like it
- Compare Riyan and RyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRiyan peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Riyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.