Ryu
About 1,690 American babies have been named Ryu since 1985, most of them around 2012. In 2025 it ranked 2,332nd. About 1,700 Ryus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ryu boys named Ryu
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,690
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 1,314th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,332nd
- First recorded
- 1985
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 1,685
How old the living Ryus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,690 babies given the name since 1985, about 1,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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.
Notable Ryus
- Ryū Murakami (born 1952)Japanese writer and filmmaker
- Ryu Jun-yeol (born 1986)South Korean actor
- Ryu Seung-min (born 1982)South Korean Olympic table tennis player
- Ryu Hwa-young (born 1993)South Korean singer, rapper and actress
- Ryu Seung-woo (born 1993)South Korean footballer
- Ryu Seung-ryong (born 1970)South Korean actor
- Ryu Hyo-young (born 1993)South Korean singer and actress
- Ryu Hye-young (born 1991)South Korean actress
People named Ryu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ryu is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ryu is most concentrated in California (5.8×), Texas (2.9×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Ryu peaked:
Ryu elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ryu | 130 | 1,675th |
| France boys | Ryu | 105 | 3,022nd |
| Switzerland boys | Ryu | 45 | 862nd |
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.
Ryu: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ryu | 43 | 0.003% | 631st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ryu | 2 | 0.000% | 884th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ryu by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ryu among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ryu | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
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.