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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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#36 · 1 in 171
- Kentucky#52 · 1 in 260
- Wyoming#54 · 1 in 136
- South Dakota#57 · 1 in 214
- Montana#66 · 1 in 235
Best ever in a state: #7 in Wyoming, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #36 | 36 | 1 in 171 |
| Kentucky | #52 | 79 | 1 in 260 |
| Wyoming | #54 | 8 | 1 in 136 |
| South Dakota | #57 | 18 | 1 in 214 |
| Montana | #66 | 16 | 1 in 235 |
| Iowa | #76 | 43 | 1 in 322 |
| North Dakota | #77 | 14 | 1 in 240 |
| Oklahoma | #84 | 49 | 1 in 361 |
| Arkansas | #87 | 36 | 1 in 350 |
| Idaho | #89 | 26 | 1 in 332 |
| Missouri | #92 | 69 | 1 in 403 |
| Nebraska | #93 | 26 | 1 in 339 |
| Mississippi | #95 | 30 | 1 in 361 |
| Kansas | #101 | 36 | 1 in 390 |
| Ohio | #103 | 125 | 1 in 420 |
| Alabama | #110 | 47 | 1 in 458 |
| Maine | #113 | 12 | 1 in 320 |
| Colorado | #121 | 58 | 1 in 463 |
| Minnesota | #124 | 52 | 1 in 471 |
| Tennessee | #124 | 76 | 1 in 484 |
| Utah | #125 | 41 | 1 in 480 |
| Indiana | #130 | 64 | 1 in 495 |
| Washington | #130 | 61 | 1 in 538 |
| Wisconsin | #133 | 46 | 1 in 509 |
| Michigan | #142 | 71 | 1 in 566 |
| Oregon | #143 | 28 | 1 in 538 |
| Hawaii | #146 | 7 | 1 in 417 |
| Nevada | #171 | 17 | 1 in 664 |
| Pennsylvania | #175 | 73 | 1 in 716 |
| Arizona | #179 | 48 | 1 in 682 |
| Virginia | #179 | 51 | 1 in 730 |
| Georgia | #189 | 65 | 1 in 773 |
| South Carolina | #194 | 29 | 1 in 731 |
| New Hampshire | #206 | 6 | 1 in 751 |
| Louisiana | #207 | 25 | 1 in 765 |
| Illinois | #226 | 52 | 1 in 953 |
| Florida | #247 | 83 | 1 in 1,151 |
| North Carolina | #260 | 48 | 1 in 1,072 |
| New Mexico | #270 | 7 | 1 in 929 |
| Texas | #272 | 144 | 1 in 1,216 |
| Maryland | #319 | 17 | 1 in 1,347 |
| Massachusetts | #335 | 16 | 1 in 1,689 |
| New York | #345 | 51 | 1 in 1,655 |
| California | #429 | 75 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Connecticut | #498 | 5 | 1 in 2,641 |
| New Jersey | #655 | 10 | 1 in 3,977 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 48,705 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 75.3% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #4,172Willamina34
- #4,172Xya34
- #4,172Zakiya34
- #4,265Ryker33
- #4,265Adeya33
- #4,265Aiya33
- #4,265Alta33
- #4,352Aaryn32
- #4,352Adalind32
- #4,352Addelynn32
Tied with 86 names at #4,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 853 of them was named Ryker, which outranked 98.7% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).