as a First Name
From the Irish surname, Gaelic Ó Riain ‘descendant of Rian’. Ryan is associated with the film actor Ryan O'Neal (b. 1941) and is one of several names of Celtic origin that have become very popular throughout the English-speaking world since the 1990s. It is also now well established in North America as a girl's name.
| 85th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 613,386
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 874,097
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Ryan per capita
- 1985
- marked the height of its popularity
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98%
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55+
26%
30-54
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39%
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