The Old Irish name Rian is of uncertain meaning. Probably, it means ‘little king’, from the word ‘rí’ combined with a diminutive suffix. The English spelling Ryan is much more common in the US.
Rian is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
Few children have been named Rian in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 7 out of 100,000 children are currently called Rian. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Rian at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Rian is number *** on the list of most common first names.
While Rian isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1981 the name Rian reached its highest popularity with #1,707 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their newborn Rian. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and kids in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Rian.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 220 babies were born with the name Rian. This puts the name in rank 2,100 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,502,736 newborns was named Rian that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Rian has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 4.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common initial letters of first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Rian is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Rian and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rian, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rian
Rian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
I
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
I
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rian sounds like this:
