Rian

boys’ name · 61%girls’ name · 39%At its peak · modern nameCompare

Rian is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 156 births. Its best rank was 905th, in 1979.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1560.01% of boys
Peak year: 2021202 births
Best rank: #905in 1979
Since 1948: 8,928people given the name

Babies named Rian, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

5,464 boys have been named Rian in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 202 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rian is used for both sexes: 39% of its bearers are girls (3,464), most of them born around 2006.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Rian
1940s	7
1950s	103
1960s	142
1970s	516
1980s	697
1990s	716
2000s	1,112
2010s	1,325
2020s	846

In 2021, its biggest year

Rian was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Rian

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.