Ryan
416
Babies in 2024
-58%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 6.50k
-7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ryan
Ryan peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (6,496 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 416 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ryan reached its peak in 1996, when 6,496 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #7 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 416 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 68,692 boys have been officially registered with the name Ryan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 7,458 boys were registered with the name, starting from 989 in 2014 and ending at 416 in 2024.