Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ryu” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ryu” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ryu” 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 “Ryu” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ryu” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ryu” 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
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 -100%
2000 35 0.000009259 35 -100%
2001 19 0.000005076 19 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 -100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 -100%
2006 43 0.000010869 43 -100%
2007 53 0.000013258 53 -100%
2008 53 0.000013484 53 -100%
2009 61 0.000015968 61 -100%
2010 63 0.000017047 63 -100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 -100%
2012 130 0.000035545 130 -100%
2013 76 0.000020847 76 -100%
2014 73 0.000019696 73 -100%
2015 56 0.000015131 56 -100%
2016 72 0.000019625 72 -100%
2017 76 0.000021252 76 -100%
2018 54 0.000015359 54 -100%
2019 68 0.000019591 68 -100%
2020 72 0.000021553 72 -100%
2021 77 0.000022728 77 -100%
2022 78 0.000023056 5 73 -87%
2023 75 0.00002265 75 -100%
2024 125 0.000037554 125 -100%

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