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Rider vs Ridwan

American parents have registered 1,293 Riders since 1880, against 726 Ridwans. Rider is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rider against Ridwan, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rider Ridwan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 34 years in which either name was published, Rider for 31 years and Ridwan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Rider Ridwan
Total US births 1,293726
Most in one year 7145
Babies in 2025 3019
Estimated living today 1,300720
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20142015
Best rank 2,000th boys2,684th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th5,045th
First recorded 19931992
Girls / boys 0 / 1,29337 / 689

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Riders alive today are over 14; half the Ridwans are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rider and Ridwan.