girls:
2.2k births since 2001
#3700 (35th percentile)
boys:
61.2k births since 1960
#429 (91st percentile)
overall:
63.3k births since 1960
#927 (88th percentile)
The name Ryder is the #927 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,313 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 88.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #429 (90.7% percentile) for all time with 61,154 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #3,700 (35.3% percentile) for all time with 2,159 births since 2001.
Ryder first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Ryder is available in 60 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 21 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ryder has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.5% of babies named Ryder were boys.
For boys, Ryder reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 89.6% percentile (ranked #95) with 2,006 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 2,035 births per million (ranked 89.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ryder ranks #126 for boys (86.3% percentile) with 1,541 births per million, which is 75.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ryder reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 26.5% percentile (ranked #688) with 143 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 143 births per million (ranked 26.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ryder ranks #756 for girls (20.2% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 78.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ryder".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ryder is pronounced as RAI-der, which has 2 syllables.
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