How popular is “Ryan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ryan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ryan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ryan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ryan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ryan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ryan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ryan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1906	10	0.00002334		10	-100%
1911	6	0.000009313		6	-100%
1913	7	0.000006156		7	-100%
1914	9	0.000006354		9	-100%
1916	7	0.000003619		7	-100%
1917	8	0.000003987		8	-100%
1918	12	0.000005527		12	-100%
1919	6	0.000002843		6	-100%
1920	12	0.000005304		12	-100%
1921	17	0.000007282		17	-100%
1922	8	0.000003495		8	-100%
1923	10	0.000004343		10	-100%
1924	7	0.000002939		7	-100%
1925	14	0.000006		14	-100%
1926	14	0.000006098		14	-100%
1927	9	0.00000388		9	-100%
1928	14	0.000006192		14	-100%
1929	6	0.000002737		6	-100%
1930	14	0.000006297		14	-100%
1931	15	0.000007128		15	-100%
1932	14	0.000006631		14	-100%
1933	11	0.000005502		11	-100%
1934	13	0.00000626		13	-100%
1935	11	0.000005263		11	-100%
1936	13	0.000006257		13	-100%
1937	14	0.000006571		14	-100%
1938	8	0.000003616		8	-100%
1939	21	0.000009531		21	-100%
1940	18	0.000007817		18	-100%
1941	13	0.000005336		13	-100%
1942	26	0.000009517		26	-100%
1943	34	0.000012046		34	-100%
1944	23	0.00000855		23	-100%
1945	35	0.000013193		35	-100%
1946	65	0.000020342		65	-100%
1947	102	0.000028315		102	-100%
1948	82	0.000023751		82	-100%
1949	102	0.00002927		102	-100%
1950	99	0.000028259		99	-100%
1951	105	0.000028504		105	-100%
1952	126	0.000033175		126	-100%
1953	145	0.000037627		145	-100%
1954	132	0.00003316		132	-100%
1955	176	0.000043835		176	-100%
1956	192	0.000046568		192	-100%
1957	278	0.000066157		278	-100%
1958	308	0.000074506		308	-100%
1959	407	0.000097884	7	400	-97%
1960	385	0.000092686	5	380	-97%
1961	389	0.000093909		389	-100%
1962	397	0.00009838		397	-100%
1963	647	0.000163458		647	-100%
1964	520	0.000133758	5	515	-98%
1965	1092	0.000301204	6	1086	-99%
1966	1590	0.000457468	17	1573	-98%
1967	1942	0.000572035	15	1927	-98%
1968	2181	0.000645569	14	2167	-99%
1969	2262	0.000650875	16	2246	-99%
1970	2347	0.000650767	24	2323	-98%
1971	6229	0.001814789	45	6184	-99%
1972	8935	0.002842831	56	8879	-99%
1973	10597	0.003512561	84	10513	-98%
1974	13304	0.004376317	125	13179	-98%
1975	15436	0.005112284	139	15297	-98%
1976	17649	0.005816498	163	17486	-98%
1977	21611	0.006803413	362	21249	-97%
1978	21902	0.006900724	580	21322	-95%
1979	23769	0.007144274	558	23211	-95%
1980	25400	0.007374062	602	24798	-95%
1981	27489	0.007946233	675	26814	-95%
1982	27282	0.007777165	596	26686	-96%
1983	28458	0.008216926	609	27849	-96%
1984	29269	0.008389526	543	28726	-96%
1985	30479	0.008539664	570	29909	-96%
1986	30228	0.008497986	703	29525	-95%
1987	29188	0.008095154	698	28490	-95%
1988	28365	0.007676501	615	27750	-96%
1989	28973	0.007536325	566	28407	-96%
1990	29708	0.007516298	451	29257	-97%
1991	27965	0.007179229	431	27534	-97%
1992	27395	0.00713175	377	27018	-97%
1993	27079	0.007182227	350	26729	-97%
1994	24427	0.006570543	361	24066	-97%
1995	23441	0.006400876	354	23087	-97%
1996	22192	0.006084676	382	21810	-97%
1997	20888	0.005761017	360	20528	-97%
1998	20675	0.005620945	477	20198	-95%
1999	21467	0.005811525	454	21013	-96%
2000	20717	0.005480827	448	20269	-96%
2001	18754	0.005009898	465	18289	-95%
2002	18177	0.004862382	519	17658	-94%
2003	20176	0.005306236	598	19578	-94%
2004	20197	0.005285895	700	19497	-93%
2005	18664	0.004854292	676	17988	-93%
2006	17121	0.00432765	689	16432	-92%
2007	16427	0.00410913	706	15721	-91%
2008	15261	0.003882549	575	14686	-92%
2009	13647	0.003572349	527	13120	-92%
2010	12446	0.003367662	465	11981	-93%
2011	12009	0.003283128	506	11503	-92%
2012	11411	0.003120004	467	10944	-92%
2013	10331	0.002833775	438	9893	-92%
2014	9704	0.002618191	606	9098	-88%
2015	9227	0.002493169	680	8547	-85%
2016	8946	0.002438467	688	8258	-85%
2017	8478	0.002370676	773	7705	-82%
2018	7806	0.002220202	866	6940	-78%
2019	6893	0.001985921	773	6120	-78%
2020	6025	0.001803581	684	5341	-77%
2021	5367	0.001584144	635	4732	-76%
2022	4914	0.001452499	515	4399	-79%
2023	4466	0.001348757	432	4034	-81%
2024	4291	0.001289169	399	3892	-81%

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