Ryne
Ryne was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,352 among boys’ names; 4,404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,230 Americans named Ryne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryne?
#5,352 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryne fell from #3,351 in 2015 to #5,352 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 10.5 per million.
286 babies in 1985, the peak
Ryne peaked in 1985, when 286 boys were given it, #516 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,352 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,848 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,027 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,819 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,464 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,003 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,781 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,866 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,790 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,331 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,351 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,572 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 73 | #1,957 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 87 | #1,748 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 77 | #1,883 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,541 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 93 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 93 | #1,582 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,581 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 84 | #1,576 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,605 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 75 | #1,613 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 71 | #1,652 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 73 | #1,540 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,312 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,194 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 152 | #890 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,233 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 147 | #896 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 185 | #773 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 236 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 238 | #656 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 263 | #626 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 189 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 162 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 155 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 178 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 286 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 199 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,407 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,756 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ryne has been given almost only to boys: 31 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ryne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryne, and how old are they?
4,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,404 Americans ever recorded as Ryne. The median Ryne alive today is 33 years old; half are between 21 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,975 people named Ryne (99 women and girls, 3,876 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,169 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 | 70 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 421 |
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 Ryne born?
The states with the most babies named Ryne are Illinois, Indiana and Texas, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 695 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Indiana | 297 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 234 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 177 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 138 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Tennessee | 105 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 96 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Ryne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryne is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1958 it was given 3.5 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 Ryne 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 4,671 babies since 1880, Ryne is the most given (94% of them).
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 Ryne
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 Ryne and names like it
- Compare Ryne and RinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRyne peaked in 1985.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryne since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Ryne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ryne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.