Ryon
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ryon has been given to 2,026 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Ryon, 2024
1 in 304,000
Ryon over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ryon?
Ryon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 304,000
- 11 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 157,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,642 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ryon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ryon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ryons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ryon was born before 1991 — so the typical Ryon is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 25.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,009
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (509).
Is Ryon 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (72)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.9% average annual change
Spellings of Ryon
Ryon is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 30.7% against Ryon's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ryon is used
Across 1910–2025, Ryon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 232,623 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 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. Ryon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ryon around the world
Where Ryon 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 & Wales2001–2007#4,333in 2007
- Canada1991–1992#1,405in 1992
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ryon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ryon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Ryon
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ryon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Ryon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.