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Ryo

#2,673 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji

Ryo has been given to 827 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,673 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Ryo, 2025

1 in 67,700

Ryo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ryo: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ryo means

Ryo is a alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Japanese Kanji.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 827 boys were recorded with the name Ryo between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,338 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,829 in 2020 to #2,673 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,469 in 2015 to #2,673 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ryo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,673
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ryo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ryo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ryos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ryo was born before 2006 — so the typical Ryo is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
827
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (194).

Is Ryo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−335
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,156
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,796
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.3%
Peak was 2024 (61)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,338
2024

Where Ryo is used

Across 1910–2025, Ryo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 196,745 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ryo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ryo around the world

Where Ryo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #2,858
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ryo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,673
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,156
Best rank ever
#2,338
2024
Peak year
2024
61 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
827
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Ryo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ryo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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