Gender-neutral · #99 in 2025
Ryan
Ryan: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #99
- Born 2025
- 3,532
- Peak year
- 1985
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Ryan has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 13% of its 1985 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 10% of children named Ryan were recorded as girls and 90% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.