It promises to be a Ryan good time.
This Saturday, Clinton Hall in Williamsburg will host the first-ever Rytoberfest — an exclusive event just for those n💯amed Ryan.
“The beers will be flowing and the Bryans won’t be going,” the invite reads.
Some 150 Ryans from as far away as Maine and potentially the West Coast are expected to attend. Williamsburg’s Pod Hotel is to Ryans making the trek.
“This is the most unusual event we’ve ever hosted,” Clinton Hall owner Telly Hatzigeorgiou told The Post. “But it’s got a great turnout [in terms of RSVPs] … it’s the smartest thing I’ve heard in a long time.”
Tꩵhe event sp🅘rang out of the , which was launched in early 2023 and quickly took off.
Ryan Rose, a 27-year-old photographer who lives in Bed-Stuy, started the group with the aim of bringing people together with the ꧂same name for the heck of it.
“I lived here for four years and I still feel like it’s really hard to make friends,” she said, “even though there’s so many people here.”
She🍌 made about 20 flyers and posted them around her neighborhood. Within two weeks, about 80 Ryans had .
Soon after, Rose hosted the very first “Ryan Roundup” at Ryan Maguire’s Bar & Restaurant — naturally –in the Seaport. Amusing-but-unnecessary Ryan name tags were handed out to the roughly 150 attendees, and the event was a big success.
“There [was] not really an icebreaker,” Rose said. “Everyone [was] just so comfortable right away.”
“It’s so silly, it’s so goofy, but it really it just gets people talking to each other,” added Ryan Le, a 24-year-old software designer who lives in Williamsburg, works remotely and has been very active in the group. He estimates that he’s made eight new friends through it. “People are just so down with the idea of this.”
In recent months, half a dozen Ryan parties have been held in New York City and Southern California. The entry policy is strict. A recent “Ryan Rave” in Los Angeles featured a three-tier system for checking IDs to make sure all attendees were indeed named Ryan. (Rytoberfest will allow non-Ryans in if they are supervising an underage Ryan.)
“We had a Ryan that flew in from Maine to Los Angeles, to attend the Ryan Rave…he told me ‘I don’t think of myself as a very social person, but I’m trying to change that,'” Le, who is helping organize this weekend’s party, told The Post. “He’s flying in again from Maine for Rytoberfest.”
The club has also . There are hats bearing the slogan “No Bryans allowed” and shirts that say “I [heart] RY.”
The name Ryan , when it was the 11th most popular name for boys, according to the Social Security Administration. It has since dꦉipped and cam༺e in 74th in 2022.
Women na🌳med Ryan, like Rose, are far less common. In 2022, the moniker ranked at 582 in terms of popularity for girls, down from a height of 342 in 1986.
Rose, who has previously tried cr🀅eating Meetup groups based around horror movies and ghost hunting, with limited success, is somewhat surprised🌃 the Ryan group took off.
“I don’t think I really expected anything from it. I would have been just fun to like hang out with a few Ryans every so often,” she said. “But it has been fun to see grow.”
The endgame is to host a “RyanCon” that will shatter the same-name gathering world record.
Europeans with the name Kupreški kosci with 2,325 people. A band of Kyles i꧟n Texas but fell short by about 500.
But first, there’s this weekend’s Rytoberfest, which will include various games, and potentially entertainers — if they can find some that are named Ryan.
No matter what, Ryan Cousins, a 32-year-old Brooklynite who was one of the club’s first members, said attendees can expect a good time.
“You’re gonna be in a room with 100 or so other Ryans, that’s like the part that just never gets old,” he said.
Cousins works in advertising and said he was originally a bit “jealous” to stumble upon one of Rose’s flyers in his building earlier this year.
“I was like, ‘Who beat me to this?'” he said. “Then I was like, ‘Well, I need to get in on it now’ … I was hooked right off the bat.”
