Ryan

girls:

26.8k births since 1959

#871 (85th percentile)

boys:

956.6k births since 1906

#31 (99th percentile)

overall:

983.4k births since 1906

#44 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ryan".

1906 2023 19062023

Key Statistics

Total Births
26,822
Peak Births
865
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1959
Peak Percentile
63.6%
Current Percentile
41.5%
Peak Rank
#321
Current Rank
#554
Female statistics
Total Births
956,600
Peak Births
29,911
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1906
Peak Percentile
98.7%
Current Percentile
91.2%
Peak Rank
#11
Current Rank
#81
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ryan

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ryan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 91.1% confident that Ryan is pronounced as RAI-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is REE-uhn, at 8.9% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Ryan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Ryan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

RAI-yuhn (2 syllables)
4 names 3.4k births
R AY1 Y AH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R AY1 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.