Ryan

137,599 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ryan in the 2020 census, making it the 201st most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,172.

By the numbers

People: 137,599
Rank: 201st
How common: 1 in 2,172
Per 100,000: 46.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ryan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ryan

Meg Ryan (born 1961)American actress
Debby Ryan (born 1993)American singer and actress
Paul Ryan (born 1970)Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Kate Ryan (born 1980)Belgian singer and songwriter
Mathew Ryan (born 1992)Australian association football player
Jeri Ryan (born 1968)American actress
Robert Ryan (1909–1973)American actor
Amy Ryan (born 1968)American actress

People named Ryan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ryan

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Also a first name

Ryan has been given to 991,747 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 1985. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.