Meaning not yet researched.
Rylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 771 in 2025. Its best rank was #146 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #146 in 2011; #416 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Rylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#416 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #146.
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Rylan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 771 boys in 2025. Peak: #146 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 2,766 (2011).
In 2025, 771 US boys were named Rylan, making it the 416th most common boys’ name of the year, down 47 places from #369 in 2024. That is 115 fewer than the 886 boys named Rylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #146, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,766. For comparison, it was #241 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 190 US girls were named Rylan, making it the 1,203rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #1,127 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 215 girls named Rylan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #700, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 398. For comparison, it was #876 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rylan in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 41,160 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 20,563 babies named Rylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,228 US boys were named Rylan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,402. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,215 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rylan ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #164 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rylen (4,198 babies since 1880), Rylynn (3,243 babies since 1880), Rylin (2,852 babies since 1880) and Rilyn (1,434 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rylyn, Rylinn and Rylann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Rylyn (905), Rylinn (561), Rylann (552), Rylon (358), Rilan (253), Rilen (142), Ryelan (118), Reylan (109), Reylin (102), Ryelyn (49), Rylenn (47), Ryelin (39), and more.
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 Rylan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 20 | #164 | #125 |
| Louisiana | 26 | #205 | #263 |
| Alabama | 26 | #222 | #141 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #222 | #98 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #252 | #178 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #267 | #197 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #278 | #162 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #282 | #255 |
| Montana | 5 | #284 | #107 |
| Indiana | 27 | #298 | #157 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #302 | #200 |
| Missouri | 22 | #314 | #200 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #342 | #170 |
| Kansas | 11 | #347 | #204 |
| Georgia | 35 | #348 | #217 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #354 | #256 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #367 | #198 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #370 | #138 |
| Iowa | 10 | #372 | #146 |
| Nevada | 8 | #387 | #269 |
| Illinois | 28 | #396 | #251 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #414 | #272 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #423 | #195 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #424 | #191 |
| Ohio | 26 | #424 | #230 |
| Florida | 45 | #432 | #245 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #445 | #196 |
| Texas | 76 | #448 | #290 |
| Colorado | 13 | #465 | #199 |
| Washington | 15 | #495 | #280 |
| Maryland | 10 | #506 | #310 |
| Oregon | 7 | #519 | #307 |
| Virginia | 15 | #521 | #231 |
| Michigan | 16 | #536 | #254 |
| California | 51 | #589 | #339 |
| Arizona | 9 | #709 | #281 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #773 | #400 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #897 | #508 |
| New York | 11 | #1,104 | #417 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,203 | 771 | #416 |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,127 | 886 | #369 |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,029 | 855 | #376 |
| 2022 | 269 | #986 | 862 | #376 |
| 2021 | 277 | #950 | 958 | #341 |
| 2020 | 310 | #870 | 1,008 | #327 |
| 2019 | 308 | #872 | 1,025 | #326 |
| 2018 | 349 | #785 | 1,197 | #292 |
| 2017 | 345 | #796 | 1,264 | #287 |
| 2016 | 374 | #764 | 1,402 | #256 |
| 2015 | 318 | #876 | 1,555 | #241 |
| 2014 | 343 | #811 | 1,743 | #220 |
| 2013 | 330 | #816 | 1,896 | #202 |
| 2012 | 374 | #745 | 2,171 | #179 |
| 2011 | 398 | #700 | 2,766 | #146 |
| 2010 | 348 | #792 | 2,057 | #183 |
| 2009 | 323 | #863 | 1,951 | #197 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,028 | 1,747 | #217 |
| 2007 | 226 | #1,138 | 1,375 | #257 |
| 2006 | 218 | #1,134 | 1,328 | #259 |
| 2005 | 159 | #1,365 | 1,180 | #281 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,995 | 746 | #373 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,317 | 603 | #425 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,406 | 500 | #475 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,870 | 458 | #499 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,970 | 363 | #568 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,300 | 297 | #613 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,901 | 259 | #662 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,107 | 169 | #844 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,001 | 115 | #1,066 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,506 | 84 | #1,285 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,023 | 102 | #1,126 |
| 1993 | — | — | 78 | #1,294 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,037 | 84 | #1,234 |
| 1991 | — | — | 85 | #1,208 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,556 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,639 |
| 1988 | — | — | 59 | #1,353 |
| 1987 | — | — | 56 | #1,334 |
| 1986 | — | — | 46 | #1,488 |
| 1985 | — | — | 45 | #1,501 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,713 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,808 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,102 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,981 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,542 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,541 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,190 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,118 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,926 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,520 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,554 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,408 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,877 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,059 |
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).