Rian
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 61.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 94 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,624since 1948
Rian over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,661 | 29 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 | #1,262 | 156 |
| 2023 | #3,014 | 55 | #1,189 | 170 |
| 2022 | #2,490 | 72 | #1,264 | 153 |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 | #1,060 | 202 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | #1,166 | 165 |
| 2019 | #1,773 | 115 | #1,401 | 126 |
| 2018 | #1,692 | 122 | #1,244 | 148 |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 | #1,076 | 183 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | #1,221 | 153 |
| 2015 | #2,152 | 88 | #1,388 | 124 |
| 2014 | #2,129 | 90 | #1,334 | 130 |
| 2013 | #2,236 | 83 | #1,387 | 121 |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 | #1,367 | 123 |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 | #1,468 | 111 |
| 2010 | #2,237 | 86 | #1,525 | 106 |
| 2009 | #2,139 | 94 | #1,381 | 123 |
| 2008 | #2,004 | 104 | #1,240 | 140 |
| 2007 | #1,704 | 128 | #1,327 | 128 |
| 2006 | #1,480 | 149 | #1,350 | 120 |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 | #1,525 | 93 |
| 2004 | #1,630 | 119 | #1,379 | 104 |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | #1,181 | 126 |
| 2002 | #1,968 | 89 | #1,483 | 85 |
| 2001 | #2,013 | 84 | #1,327 | 98 |
| 2000 | #2,055 | 80 | #1,341 | 95 |
| 1999 | #1,688 | 97 | #1,574 | 70 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | #1,322 | 90 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | #1,402 | 78 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 | #1,517 | 66 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 | #1,512 | 61 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 | #1,371 | 68 |
| 1991 | #2,550 | 48 | #1,264 | 78 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | #1,135 | 90 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 | #1,382 | 63 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 | #1,263 | 66 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | #1,140 | 70 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #1,127 | 70 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #1,371 | 50 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | #1,069 | 70 |
| 1983 | #2,853 | 30 | #1,016 | 76 |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | #995 | 82 |
| 1981 | #1,809 | 61 | #1,014 | 80 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | #1,079 | 70 |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | #901 | 94 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | #969 | 79 |
| 1977 | #2,463 | 35 | #933 | 83 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | #1,390 | 41 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | #1,170 | 52 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #1,124 | 53 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #1,354 | 38 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,473 | 33 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | — | #1,889 | 22 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,650 | 23 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,792 | 20 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,279 | 13 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,322 | 13 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,858 | 19 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,806 | 20 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,263 | 13 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,458 | 28 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rian! It came in at #3,010, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rian
- 18 spots since 2024 (#1,262 → #1,244)
- 78 spots since 2020 (#1,166 → #1,244)
- 144 spots since 2015 (#1,388 → #1,244)
- Biggest jump: 457 spots in 1977 (#1,390 → #933)
- Biggest drop: 178 spots in 1980 (#901 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1979 at #901 (94 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1977–1979
- Highest: 1 in 8,661 boys born in 2021 were named Rian (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #901 in 1979, was only 1 in 18,314 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.6% of all boys named Rian (1,325) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,010 |
| 1950s | 103 | #1,458 (1955) | #2,584 |
| 1960s | 142 | #1,650 (1968) | #2,273 |
| 1970s | 516 | #901 (1979) | #1,319 |
| 1980s | 697 | #995 (1982) | #1,146 |
| 1990s | 716 | #1,135 (1990) | #1,430 |
| 2000s | 1,112 | #1,181 (2003) | #1,353 |
| 2010s | 1,325 | #1,076 (2017) | #1,341 |
| 2020s | 1,006 | #1,060 (2021) | #1,198 |
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.
Rian in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 15,431 of them was named Rian, which outranked 91.3% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,614Sana120
- #1,614Shanice120
- #1,614Vianney120
- #1,630Rian119
- #1,630Brissa119
- #1,630Deisy119
- #1,630Emory119
- #1,643Aditi118
- #1,643Angelena118
- #1,643Azucena118
Tied with 12 names at #1,630; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 19,086 of them was named Rian, which outranked 89.6% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,374Keion105
- #1,374Travion105
- #1,374Tylan105
- #1,379Rian104
- #1,379Eloy104
- #1,379Landan104
- #1,379Maddux104
- #1,384Benton103
- #1,384Bryton103
- #1,384Deontae103
Tied with 4 names at #1,379; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.