Rhyan
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 67.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 165 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,097since 1975
Rhyan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,249 | 48 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #2,244 | 83 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #1,930 | 103 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #1,577 | 133 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #1,668 | 123 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #1,367 | 165 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #1,465 | 153 | #3,586 | 30 |
| 2016 | #1,743 | 119 | #3,596 | 30 |
| 2015 | #1,964 | 102 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #1,908 | 105 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #2,236 | 83 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #1,823 | 111 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #1,666 | 127 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #1,860 | 109 | #2,057 | 66 |
| 2009 | #1,602 | 140 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #1,605 | 141 | #2,467 | 51 |
| 2007 | #1,859 | 113 | #2,602 | 47 |
| 2006 | #1,743 | 119 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #1,911 | 101 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #2,526 | 66 | #2,697 | 39 |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 | #2,618 | 36 |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #2,091 | 38 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #2,143 | 34 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rhyan! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rhyan is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#630 · 1 in 2,739
- Maryland#646 · 1 in 2,909
- South Carolina#651 · 1 in 2,959
- Georgia#881 · 1 in 4,713
- North Carolina#917 · 1 in 5,043
Best ever in a state: #371 in Maryland, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #630 | 7 | 1 in 2,739 |
| Maryland | #646 | 8 | 1 in 2,909 |
| South Carolina | #651 | 6 | 1 in 2,959 |
| Georgia | #881 | 10 | 1 in 4,713 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Virginia | #942 | 7 | 1 in 5,147 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,118 | 7 | 1 in 7,306 |
| Michigan | #1,143 | 6 | 1 in 6,878 |
| Ohio | #1,153 | 7 | 1 in 7,397 |
| Illinois | #1,606 | 5 | 1 in 11,109 |
| Florida | #1,639 | 7 | 1 in 12,280 |
| Texas | #1,863 | 11 | 1 in 14,534 |
| California | #2,901 | 6 | 1 in 32,625 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rhyan
- 555 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #3,249)
- 1,581 spots since 2020 (#1,668 → #3,249)
- 1,285 spots since 2015 (#1,964 → #3,249)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2018 at #1,367 (165 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,310 girls born in 2018 were named Rhyan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,485 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Rhyan (1,210) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1996, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 18 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,563 |
| 1980s | 122 | #3,645 (1986) | #6,285 |
| 1990s | 254 | #2,471 (1999) | #4,593 |
| 2000s | 939 | #1,602 (2009) | #2,106 |
| 2010s | 1,210 | #1,367 (2018) | #1,760 |
| 2020s | 554 | #1,577 (2021) | #2,227 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rhyan in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 11,284 of them was named Rhyan, which outranked 92.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,460Linnea154
- #1,460Lucinda154
- #1,460Maite154
- #1,465Rhyan153
- #1,465Annabeth153
- #1,465Arlene153
- #1,465Charlene153
- #1,475Dayanna152
- #1,475Jaclyn152
- #1,475Karly152
Tied with 9 names at #1,465; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 61,699 of them was named Rhyan, which outranked 74.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,518Zadok31
- #3,518Zakariah31
- #3,518Ziad31
- #3,586Rhyan30
- #3,586Aaren30
- #3,586Aarish30
- #3,586Abrar30
- #3,678Aaryn29
- #3,678Advay29
- #3,678An29
Tied with 91 names at #3,586; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.