First name origins & meanings:
- Gaelic: Little king
- Gaelic: Little king
First name variations: Ryen, Rian, Ryanne, Rhine, Rhyan, Rhyne, Ry, Ryane, Ryen, Rian, Ryanne, Ryun Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: simplified form of Mulryan.
- Irish: reduced
form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of
Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of
Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the
little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland;
there has been considerable confusion with Regan.
- Americanized spelling of German Rein.
Famous people with this first name:
Ryan O'Neal,
Ryan Phillippe Famous people with this last name:
Meg Ryan Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Marc Anthony,
Jackson Browne This name appears in the following lists:
First Ladies,
Opera Singers,
Pop Princes and Princesses
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