Ryo
Ryo is a boy name of Japanese origin, ranked #106 in popularity, meaning Refreshing; clear; distant.
What Ryo means
Refreshing; clear; distant.
Ryo is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Ryo comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Ryo is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Ryo?
Ryo is ranked #106, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Ryo
Ryo sits in our water and the sea group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Water
Names like Ryo
These share Ryo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Atsuko — Lake.
- Kazumi — Water.
- Kyoko — Lake.
- Mariko — Lake.
- Kai — The sea.
- Reed — Red-haired; the riverside reed.
- Arnav — The ocean; the sea.
- Banks — Dweller by the riverbank.
- Beckett — Dweller by the brook.
- Beckham — Homestead by the stream.
- Bilal — Water; freshness.
- Douglas — From the dark river.