The RYAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	139,335	177	0.052	516
United States (1880 census)	53,198	69	0.106	1,064
Change since 1880	+86137	-108	-0.054	-548
Other Countries
Australia	25,526	17	0.156	1,562
United Kingdom	27,439	186	0.06	597

Top States for RYAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	14,407	52	0.076	759
California	11,376	237	0.034	336
Florida	8,495	173	0.053	532
Massachusetts	8,378	26	0.132	1,320
Illinois	7,712	95	0.062	621
Top States for RYAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	8,378	26	0.132	1,320
Vermont	759	40	0.125	1,247
Delaware	722	106	0.092	921
Rhode Island	929	56	0.089	886
New Hampshire	1,073	83	0.087	868

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RYAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RYAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RYAN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RYAN by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RYAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RYAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RYAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RYAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	892	0.64
Native American/Alaskan	585	0.42
White (Caucasian)	130,041	93.33
Black/African American	3,929	2.82
White (Hispanic)	2,257	1.62
Mixed Race	1,630	1.17

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RYAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RYAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RYAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.