Ryder
Ryder was given to 2,710 boys in 2025, #133 among boys’ names; 69,088 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 68,400 Americans named Ryder and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryder by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ryder mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ryder is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ryder?
#133 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryder fell from #98 in 2015 to #133 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.2 to 1.6 per 1,000.
4,298 babies in 2015, the peak
Ryder peaked in 2015, when 4,298 babies were given it (4,165 boys, #98 among boys’ names). The 2,821 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,710 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 2,703 | #134 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 2,838 | #128 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 3,326 | #115 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 3,436 | #111 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 3,382 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 3,325 | #116 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 3,015 | #131 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 3,270 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 3,893 | #102 | 2.1 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,165 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 4,113 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 2013 | 3,791 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 3,821 | #100 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 3,710 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 2,967 | #135 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 2,721 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 1,936 | #204 | 0.95 |
| 2007 | 1,755 | #217 | 0.85 |
| 2006 | 1,346 | #257 | 0.65 |
| 2005 | 1,110 | #296 | 0.56 |
| 2004 | 832 | #341 | 0.42 |
| 2003 | 305 | #653 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 246 | #723 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 174 | #904 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 203 | #795 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 162 | #917 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 155 | #919 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 181 | #811 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,003 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 143 | #925 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 135 | #948 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,271 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,322 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,201 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,122 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,078 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,870 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,396 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,874 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,641 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,041 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,290 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,949 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,983 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryder a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 69,088 Americans recorded as Ryder, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 111 girls and 2,710 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryder: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryder, and how old are they?
68,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 69,088 Americans ever recorded as Ryder. The median Ryder alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 44,966 people named Ryder (1,199 women and girls, 43,767 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49,982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 186 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 792 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 21,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45,700 |
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 Ryder born?
The states with the most babies named Ryder are California, Texas and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 251 | #163 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 235 | #162 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 176 | #124 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 125 | #106 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | #126 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 101 | #121 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 101 | #91 | 1.0× |
| New York | 99 | #199 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 88 | #122 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 88 | #144 | 0.8× |
Where Ryder is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryder is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1960 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 Ryder 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 71,756 babies since 1880, Ryder is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,821 of their 2,892 babies (98%), again the 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 Ryder
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 Ryder and names like it
- Compare Ryder and RhyderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRyder peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryder since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ryder: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Ryder.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryder alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.