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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#19 · 1 in 139
- Idaho#41 · 1 in 166
- Montana#53 · 1 in 166
- North Dakota#53 · 1 in 169
- South Dakota#77 · 1 in 234
Best ever in a state: #7 in Wyoming, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #19 | 154 | 1 in 139 |
| Idaho | #41 | 49 | 1 in 166 |
| Montana | #53 | 23 | 1 in 166 |
| North Dakota | #53 | 21 | 1 in 169 |
| South Dakota | #77 | 17 | 1 in 234 |
| Wyoming | #80 | 9 | 1 in 206 |
| Nebraska | #88 | 33 | 1 in 297 |
| Iowa | #91 | 47 | 1 in 320 |
| Maine | #105 | 14 | 1 in 341 |
| Alaska | #113 | 10 | 1 in 341 |
| Oklahoma | #122 | 45 | 1 in 452 |
| Oregon | #155 | 31 | 1 in 587 |
| Indiana | #177 | 45 | 1 in 800 |
| Colorado | #182 | 38 | 1 in 713 |
| Minnesota | #187 | 34 | 1 in 829 |
| Kansas | #194 | 22 | 1 in 725 |
| Arizona | #195 | 48 | 1 in 764 |
| Missouri | #198 | 37 | 1 in 875 |
| Arkansas | #201 | 18 | 1 in 806 |
| Washington | #202 | 43 | 1 in 836 |
| West Virginia | #212 | 9 | 1 in 943 |
| Kentucky | #227 | 21 | 1 in 1,056 |
| Wisconsin | #228 | 26 | 1 in 1,051 |
| Michigan | #235 | 43 | 1 in 1,123 |
| Nevada | #253 | 12 | 1 in 1,114 |
| Illinois | #289 | 46 | 1 in 1,473 |
| Alabama | #295 | 15 | 1 in 1,527 |
| New Mexico | #309 | 7 | 1 in 1,363 |
| Pennsylvania | #316 | 31 | 1 in 1,964 |
| Ohio | #318 | 32 | 1 in 1,866 |
| Tennessee | #331 | 19 | 1 in 1,833 |
| South Carolina | #332 | 12 | 1 in 1,753 |
| North Carolina | #403 | 20 | 1 in 2,545 |
| Mississippi | #404 | 7 | 1 in 1,985 |
| California | #418 | 79 | 1 in 2,916 |
| Texas | #420 | 66 | 1 in 2,652 |
| Florida | #464 | 31 | 1 in 2,968 |
| Georgia | #489 | 18 | 1 in 3,055 |
| Louisiana | #493 | 9 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Maryland | #646 | 6 | 1 in 4,672 |
| Massachusetts | #682 | 5 | 1 in 6,000 |
| Virginia | #743 | 7 | 1 in 5,899 |
| New York | #895 | 14 | 1 in 7,460 |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
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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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 117,271 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 60.3% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,436Zully16
- #7,436Zurie16
- #7,436Zyrah16
- #7,783Ryker15
- #7,783Abaigeal15
- #7,783Abigayl15
- #7,783Aby15
- #8,196Aahna14
- #8,196Aastha14
- #8,196Abi14
Tied with 412 names at #7,783; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 1,468 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 98.1% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).