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Rhyan

Rhyan is a girl's name that peaked in 2018, when it was the 1,367th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,249th. About 4,500 Rhyans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rhyan boys named Rhyan

Girls and boys called Rhyan

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Rhyan crossed from boys to girls in 1997, and has stayed there for 29 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 84% girls, and in 2025 it was 75%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 43 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,609
Estimated living today
4,500
Median age today
15
Peak year
2018
Best rank
1,367th
Rank in 2025
3,249th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
3,097 / 1,512

How old the living Rhyans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,609 babies given the name since 1969, about 4,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Rhyans

People named Rhyan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rhyan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rhyan is most concentrated in Maryland (4.3×), Georgia (3.0×), Texas (2.5×), North Carolina (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Rhyan peaked:

All the names of 2018

Rhyan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rhyan 144 1,568th
France boys Rhyan 35 3,904th
Scotland boys Rhyan 20 482nd
England and Wales girls Rhyan 4 3,225th
Ireland boys Rhyan 4 601st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Rhyan against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.