Ryen
Ryen is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,431 among girls’ names and #10,475 among boys’, #9,886 among all names counting both); 2,391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Ryen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryen?
#10,475 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryen fell from #4,376 in 2015 to #10,475 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 4.1 per million.
119 babies in 2005, the peak
Ryen peaked in 2005, when 119 babies were given it (56 boys, #2,173 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,431 | 7 | #10,475 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,338 | 13 | #6,747 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,362 | 13 | #6,816 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,771 | 14 | #6,403 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,707 | 9 | #8,702 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,283 | 16 | #5,648 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,582 | 15 | #6,042 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,862 | 34 | #3,355 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,561 | 32 | #3,502 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,334 | 29 | #3,756 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,211 | 23 | #4,376 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,338 | 26 | #3,985 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,796 | 31 | #3,479 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,581 | 33 | #3,345 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,988 | 42 | #2,841 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,094 | 47 | #2,623 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,787 | 46 | #2,694 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,636 | 41 | #2,928 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,323 | 35 | #3,232 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,047 | 49 | #2,503 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,697 | 56 | #2,173 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,834 | 45 | #2,472 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,791 | 31 | #3,095 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,787 | 42 | #2,417 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,655 | 34 | #2,777 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,627 | 41 | #2,363 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,551 | 34 | #2,594 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,912 | 39 | #2,302 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,576 | 28 | #2,804 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,473 | 35 | #2,321 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,604 | 30 | #2,539 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,640 | 32 | #2,431 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,550 | 20 | #3,338 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 30 | #2,445 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,453 | 33 | #2,211 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 29 | #2,415 | |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,898 | 31 | #2,233 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 15 | #3,492 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,954 | 20 | #2,701 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,319 | 19 | #2,762 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,048 | 17 | #2,918 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,074 | 8 | #4,880 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 18 | #2,654 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 18 | #2,684 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,259 | 10 | #4,096 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,859 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,763 | 16 | #2,875 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,483 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 9 | #4,097 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,346 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #4,235 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,863 |
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 Ryen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,391 Americans recorded as Ryen, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryen, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,391 Americans ever recorded as Ryen. The median Ryen alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,035 people named Ryen (909 women and girls, 1,126 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 447 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 588 |
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 Ryen born?
The states with the most babies named Ryen are California, Texas and New York, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 61 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 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 Ryen 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 1,009,378 babies since 1880, Ryen is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 4,269 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Ryen
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 Ryen and names like it
- Compare Ryen and RyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRyen peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryen since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ryen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ryen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.