Ryker
Ryker was given to 2,003 boys in 2025, #183 among boys’ names; 41,784 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 41,400 Americans named Ryker 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 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ryker mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ryker is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈɹaɪkɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ryker?
#183 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryker fell from #149 in 2015 to #183 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.4 to 1.2 per 1,000.
3,290 babies in 2018, the peak
Ryker peaked in 2018, when 3,290 babies were given it (3,247 boys, #122 among boys’ names). The 2,036 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,003 | #183 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 2,024 | #183 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,986 | #184 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,159 | #175 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,495 | #153 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,483 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,825 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 3,247 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 3,088 | #131 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 2,807 | #148 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,769 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 2,678 | #153 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,486 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 1,655 | #219 | 0.87 |
| 2011 | 1,294 | #271 | 0.68 |
| 2010 | 1,030 | #310 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 883 | #354 | 0.45 |
| 2008 | 704 | #418 | 0.35 |
| 2007 | 480 | #535 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 376 | #629 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 283 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 230 | #786 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 175 | #940 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,069 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,168 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,328 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 95 | #1,287 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,227 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 69 | #1,514 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 65 | #1,546 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,353 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,731 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,719 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,619 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,862 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,519 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,629 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 41,784 Americans recorded as Ryker, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 33 girls and 2,003 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryker, and how old are they?
41,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 41,784 Americans ever recorded as Ryker. The median Ryker alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 26,254 people named Ryker (338 women and girls, 25,916 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 392 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33,300 |
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 Ryker born?
The states with the most babies named Ryker are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 150 | #272 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 125 | #107 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 83 | #248 | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 79 | #53 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 76 | #126 | 1.1× |
| California | 75 | #431 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | #177 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 71 | #142 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 69 | #94 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 65 | #191 | 0.6× |
Where Ryker is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryker is most over-represented in Utah: since 1970 it was given 4.0 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 Ryker 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 43,744 babies since 1880, Ryker is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,036 of their 2,115 babies (96%), 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 Ryker
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 Ryker and names like it
- Compare Ryker and RikerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRyker peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryker since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ryker: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Ryker.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryker alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.