Ryota
Ryōta, Ryota or Ryouta is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Ryota Aikawa , Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes Ryota Aoki, Japanese footballer who plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba Ryota Aoki, Japanese footballer who plays for Nagoya Grampus Ryota Arimitsu , Japanese footballer Ryota Doi , Japanese footballer Ryota Fukunaga, Japanese…
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Ryota
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ryōta, Ryota or Ryouta is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Ryota Aikawa , Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes Ryota Aoki, Japanese footballer who plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba Ryota Aoki, Japanese footballer who plays for Nagoya Grampus Ryota Arimitsu , Japanese footballer Ryota Doi , Japanese footballer Ryota Fukunaga, Japanese…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Ryota
The earliest SSA record of Ryota as a baby boy name dates back to 1989, when 8 babies received it. 1995 was its biggest year on record, with 12 newborns named Ryota — #4,791 in the national rankings. About 43% of every Ryota on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Ryota last appeared in the published SSA data in 2017, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 185 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Ryota
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Ryota. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Ryōta
- Ryouta
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About the name Ryota
Ryota is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1989 and has accumulated 185 births in the dataset. Ryota's peak popularity came in 1995 when it ranked #4,791. Use the chart and map above to compare Ryota's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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