The name Ryker was likely a modern invented name inspired by the name Ryder, but it could be derived from the German name Riker and German word rike, meaning "rich." It first appeared on the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names in 2003 (just as Ryder was growing in popularity) and cracked the top-250 for the first time in 2012. It has now been a top-200 boy's name every year since 2013 and was the name "The Hills" star Heidi Montag gave her second son Ryker Pratt, born in 2022.
