Primarily a boy's name · 96% boys
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Ryder yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Ryder has the lowest rank in this batch at 134, and the trajectory explains why: down 35% over the decade from a 2015 high of 4,163 births to 2,694, with its best rank of 95 reached back in 2014. First recorded in 1960, all-time total 66,224. It arrived as part of the occupational-surname wave alongside Hunter and Parker, and it is leaving on the same schedule. The listed bearers are marginal — the cyclist Ryder Hesjedal, born 1980, and the actor Abby Ryder Fortson, born 2008, whose middle name it is. Neither shaped the curve. What lifted Ryder was an association with motion and toughness that reads, a decade on, as distinctly of its moment, which is the recurring risk with names chosen mainly for connotation.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 6 | #3,986 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,598 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,314 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,632 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,290 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,492 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,602 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,406 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,177 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,041 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,735 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,489 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,642 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,900 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,875 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,397 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,872 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,079 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,772 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,413 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,165 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,215 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,105 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,127 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,766 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,206 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,891 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,327 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,275 |
| 1994 | 135 | #951 |
| 1995 | 143 | #928 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,005 |
| 1997 | 181 | #813 |
| 1998 | 155 | #920 |
| 1999 | 162 | #919 |
| 2000 | 203 | #797 |
| 2001 | 174 | #905 |
| 2002 | 246 | #723 |
| 2003 | 305 | #653 |
| 2004 | 832 | #341 |
| 2005 | 1,110 | #296 |
| 2006 | 1,346 | #257 |
| 2007 | 1,755 | #217 |
| 2008 | 1,936 | #204 |
| 2009 | 2,720 | #146 |
| 2010 | 2,966 | #135 |
| 2011 | 3,710 | #108 |
| 2012 | 3,819 | #100 |
| 2013 | 3,790 | #103 |
| 2014 | 4,113 | #95 |
| 2015 | 4,163 | #98 |
| 2016 | 3,893 | #102 |
| 2017 | 3,268 | #122 |
| 2018 | 3,014 | #131 |
| 2019 | 3,324 | #116 |
| 2020 | 3,377 | #108 |
| 2021 | 3,430 | #111 |
| 2022 | 3,321 | #116 |
| 2023 | 2,834 | #128 |
| 2024 | 2,694 | #134 |
