Meaning not yet researched.
Rilyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,970 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,970 in 2012; #4,529 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Rilyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,529 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,970.
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Rilyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,970 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 100 (2012).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Rilyn, making it the 4,529th most common girls’ name of the year, down 254 places from #4,275 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 34 girls named Rilyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,970, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #2,401 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Rilyn, making it the 11,724th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #4,821, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #5,935 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rilyn in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 1,434 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 827 babies named Rilyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 513 US girls were named Rilyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rylan (41,160 babies since 1880), Rylen (4,198 babies since 1880), Rilynn (3,730 babies since 1880) and Rylynn (3,243 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Realyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Realyn (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rilyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,529 | 6 | #11,724 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,275 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,820 | 7 | #10,577 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,115 | 6 | #12,023 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,216 | 5 | #13,644 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,494 | 7 | #10,577 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,195 | 6 | #11,848 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,527 | 8 | #9,506 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,303 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,401 | 15 | #5,935 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,641 | 7 | #10,490 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,970 | 20 | #4,821 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,065 | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,718 | 12 | #7,008 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,931 | 10 | #8,173 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,521 | 7 | #10,649 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,841 | 8 | #9,384 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,180 | 6 | #11,170 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,443 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,560 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,743 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,826 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,844 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,320 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).