Ryder, an English surname-turned-given-name, was originally used as an occupational name derived from the Old English word ridere, meaning "messenger" or "mounted warrior." It first appeared on the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names in 1994 and cracked the top-200 for the first time in 2009. Ryder has now been a top-150 boy's name every year since then and was a top-100 name in 2014 and 2015. It's also the name singer-actress Kate Hudson gave her son Ryder Russell, born in 2004.
