Ryu
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 130 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,685since 1985
Ryu over time
Rank among boys' names. Ryu has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #2,332 | 59 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,432 | 127 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,014 | 75 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | — | #1,943 | 77 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,977 | 72 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,110 | 68 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,417 | 54 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,897 | 76 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,991 | 72 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,328 | 56 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,959 | 73 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,866 | 76 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,314 | 130 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,905 | 73 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,118 | 63 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,183 | 61 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,405 | 53 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,416 | 53 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,698 | 43 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,172 | 32 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,366 | 27 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,121 | 19 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,621 | 35 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
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| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ryu! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ryu
- 900 spots since 2024 (#1,432 → #2,332)
- 355 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #2,332)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,332)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2012 at #1,314 (130 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,566 boys born in 2024 were named Ryu (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,314 in 2012, was only 1 in 14,592 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.0% of all boys named Ryu (741) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 12 | #5,751 (1988) | #6,137 |
| 1990s | 77 | #3,704 (1999) | #4,941 |
| 2000s | 372 | #2,183 (2009) | #3,019 |
| 2010s | 741 | #1,314 (2012) | #1,991 |
| 2020s | 483 | #1,432 (2024) | #1,960 |
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.
Ryu in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 24,889 of them was named Ryu, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,851Wylie77
- #1,851Xaiden77
- #1,851Zaedyn77
- #1,866Ryu76
- #1,866Aaiden76
- #1,866Aurelio76
- #1,866Deshaun76
- #1,878Amin75
- #1,878Aydenn75
- #1,878Ayman75
Tied with 11 names at #1,866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.