How rare is the name Ryann?

9,739 people in the United States have the first name Ryann, about 1 in 31,013. It ranks #2,504 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RYANN

#2,504

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,739
About
1 in 31,013
This common or more
80%
Who bears it

Of the 9,739 people named Ryann, 71.2% reported their origin as White, 12.9% as Black and 8.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 93.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ryann peaked in 2006, when 419 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
419
In 2025*
184 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,109 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ryann by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,401. The largest share of babies named Ryann, 42.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#3,234435
1980s#1,8251,358
1990s#1,7881,849
2000s#1,4013,420
2010s#1,5123,418
2020s#1,8171,629
Generation X 1965–804.6%
Millennials 1981–9619.6%
Generation Z 1997–1242.6%
2013 and later33.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ryann is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ryann has been most common in Utah (2.3×), Arizona (2×), and Washington (1.9×), and least common in Alabama (0.44×).

8,923 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ryann, most common first.

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