Ryker
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · #182 for boys in 2025, 2,003 births
Given to boys 98.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 3,247 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 41,204since 1970
Ryker over time
Rank among boys' names. Ryker has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #4,265 | 33 | #182 | 2,003 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 | #182 | 2,024 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #184 | 1,986 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 | #175 | 2,159 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 | #153 | 2,495 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | #148 | 2,483 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #135 | 2,825 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #122 | 3,247 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | #131 | 3,088 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | #148 | 2,807 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #149 | 2,769 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | #153 | 2,678 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #164 | 2,486 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #219 | 1,655 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #270 | 1,294 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #309 | 1,030 |
| 2009 | — | #354 | 883 | |
| 2008 | — | #418 | 704 | |
| 2007 | — | #535 | 480 | |
| 2006 | — | #627 | 376 | |
| 2005 | — | #717 | 283 | |
| 2004 | — | #785 | 230 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #936 | 175 |
| 2002 | — | #1,064 | 142 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,168 | 118 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,323 | 97 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,283 | 95 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,224 | 100 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,509 | 69 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,533 | 65 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,354 | 76 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,303 | 80 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,721 | 50 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,697 | 50 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,606 | 26 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ryker! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ryker is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#166 · 1 in 656
- Idaho#206 · 1 in 835
- Washington#372 · 1 in 2,254
- Arizona#535 · 1 in 4,455
- Minnesota#549 · 1 in 5,006
Best ever in a state: #7 in Wyoming, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #166 | 33 | 1 in 656 |
| Idaho | #206 | 10 | 1 in 835 |
| Washington | #372 | 15 | 1 in 2,254 |
| Arizona | #535 | 9 | 1 in 4,455 |
| Minnesota | #549 | 6 | 1 in 5,006 |
| Illinois | #921 | 8 | 1 in 9,903 |
| California | #1,158 | 14 | 1 in 17,931 |
| Florida | #1,252 | 6 | 1 in 15,576 |
| Texas | #1,904 | 5 | 1 in 35,338 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Ryker
- Held #182 since 2024
- 34 spots since 2020 (#148 → #182)
- 33 spots since 2015 (#149 → #182)
- Biggest jump: 151 spots in 2004 (#936 → #785)
- Biggest drop: 22 spots in 2022 (#153 → #175)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2018 at #122 (3,247 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2003–2025
- Highest: 1 in 559 boys born in 2018 were named Ryker (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 853 boys born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 58.0% of all boys named Ryker (23,879) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,746 |
| 1980s | 48 | #3,705 (1988) | #4,642 |
| 1990s | 623 | #1,224 (1998) | #1,864 |
| 2000s | 3,488 | #354 (2009) | #793 |
| 2010s | 23,879 | #122 (2018) | #180 |
| 2020s | 13,150 | #148 (2020) | #171 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ryker in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 365,429 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 14.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,655 names at #15,784; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 11,288 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 92.7% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #933Cael176
- #933Cristobal176
- #933Pierre176
- #936Ryker175
- #936Broderick175
- #936Cason175
- #936Clifford175
- #942Austen174
- #942Ervin174
- #942Paxton174
Tied with 5 names at #936; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.