{"id":139701,"date":"2026-03-16T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:21:07","slug":"st-ryans-day-meetup-in-philadelphia-aims-to-break-a-world-record-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139701\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;St. Ryan&#8217;s Day&#8217; meetup in Philadelphia aims to break a world record | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/st-ryans-day-meetup-aims-unite-people-share-same-name-break-world-record\/18710407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PHILADELPHIA (<a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/st-ryans-day-meetup-aims-unite-people-share-same-name-break-world-record\/18710407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WPVI<\/a>) &#8212; A nationwide effort to unite people named Ryan is coming to Philadelphia this month, transforming a shared first name into a community movement.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the upcoming &#8220;Ryan Reunion&#8221; is about more than novelty-it&#8217;s about connection.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Fisher, who helps lead the Ryan Meetup group, said the gatherings create an instant bond. &#8220;You walk into a Ryan meetup, and it&#8217;s like, hey, Ryan&#8217;s here! And everyone&#8230; It&#8217;s the ultimate icebreaker, and it just brings this bonding together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then the feedback we get from every Ryan who attends a Ryan meetup is, when&#8217;s the next one?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event, known as St. Ryan&#8217;s Day, is billed as the fastest-growing organization dedicated to bringing together people who share the name.<\/p>\n<p>The idea began three years ago with a flier posted in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, an online community of thousands of Ryans has formed, hosting meetups and events nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the appeal goes beyond the joke. &#8220;Something we hear about a lot, especially post-COVID, is people trying to find their community, and find their people, and find a sense of belonging, and find something that&#8217;s unique,&#8221; Fisher said.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s meetup is scheduled for March 21 on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>The group plans to attempt a world record for the most people with the same name simultaneously climbing the Rocky Steps.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers say the goal is simple: bring people together &#8211; one Ryan at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for updates on this story \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A nationwide effort to unite people named Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12157,139,69,71,70,12158],"class_list":["post-139701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-national-and-world-news","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shareable-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}