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Ryanne vs Ryatt

American parents have registered 3,222 Ryannes since 1880, against 2,694 Ryatts. But in 2025 it was Ryatt that was commoner, 395 babies to 27.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ryanne against Ryatt, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ryanne Ryatt

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 54 years in which either name was published, Ryanne for 42 years and Ryatt for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ryanne Ryatt
Total US births 3,2222,694
Most in one year 120395
Babies in 2025 27395
Estimated living today 3,2002,700
Median age today 244
Peak year 20052025
Best rank 1,657th girls715th boys
Rank in 2025 4,878th715th
First recorded 19722006
Girls / boys 3,222 / 0192 / 2,502

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 Ryannes alive today are over 24; half the Ryatts are over 4. That is 20 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ryanne Ryatt
England and Wales 173

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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