Humanverse

Ryen

The boy's name Ryen has been in the national records since 1974, with 2,391 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 2,300 Ryens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Ryen boys named Ryen

Girls and boys called Ryen

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Ryen crossed from boys to girls in 2019, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 71% girls, and in 2024 it was 50%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 38 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,391
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
19
Peak year
2005
Best rank
2,163rd
Rank in 2025
9,714th
First recorded
1974
Girls / boys
1,059 / 1,332

How old the living Ryens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,391 babies given the name since 1974, about 2,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 990 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ryen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ryen is most concentrated in California (4.9×), Texas (2.9×), New York (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular boys’ names the year Ryen peaked:

All the names of 2005

Ryen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Scotland boys Ryen 4 309th
England and Wales boys Ryen 3 4,333rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Ryen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Ryen with a name of your own

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.