Ryon
Ryon was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 2,026 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Ryon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 22 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,656, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1989, the peak
Ryon peaked in 1989, when 72 boys were given it, #1,284 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 | #7,656 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,791 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,164 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,289 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,996 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,975 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,707 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,899 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,279 | 9.5 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,155 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,672 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,938 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,824 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,872 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,788 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,459 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,007 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,432 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,073 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,300 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,268 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,096 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,325 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,913 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,608 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,255 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,435 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,488 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,100 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,978 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,916 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 61 | #1,516 | 31.1 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,590 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,785 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,931 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,284 | 36.0 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,324 | 31.9 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,267 | 32.1 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,379 | 28.2 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,664 | 20.6 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,315 | 28.3 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,557 | 21.8 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,305 | 28.7 |
| 1981 | 46 | #1,409 | 25.7 |
| 1980 | 38 | #1,587 | 21.3 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,432 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 41 | #1,469 | 25.0 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,207 | 32.9 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,302 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,586 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 41 | #1,347 | 26.1 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,371 | 24.4 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,500 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,532 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,197 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,203 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,425 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,950 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,195 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,200 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,513 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,974 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,965 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ryon has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ryon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryon, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,026 Americans ever recorded as Ryon. The median Ryon alive today is 34 years old; half are between 22 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,741 people named Ryon (86 women and girls, 1,655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 409 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 767 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 512 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
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 Ryon born?
The states with the most babies named Ryon are California, Texas and Florida, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 202 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 104 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 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 Ryon 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, Ryon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,269 babies recorded by SSA was a Ryon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ryon
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 Ryon and names like it
- Compare Ryon and RyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRyon peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryon since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Ryon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ryon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.