Stryker
#2,597 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Stryker has been given to 1,599 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,597 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 105 recorded.
Babies named Stryker, 2025
1 in 65,000
Stryker 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Stryker?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 65,000
- 51 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 33,500
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,597
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 45,058 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Stryker sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stryker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Strykers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Stryker was born before 2015 — so the typical Stryker is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,599
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (900).
Is Stryker 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
- +443
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −833
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,044
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.49×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 48.6%
- Peak was 2015 (105)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Stryker
Stryker is not the most common spelling — Ryker is, with 94.6% against Stryker's 3.7%.
Where Stryker is used
Across 2016–2025, Stryker was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 35,633 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).
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.
Stryker around the world
Where Stryker 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.
- Canada2009–2023#3,103in 2023
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Stryker by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Stryker
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Stryker
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.