Meaning not yet researched.
Rylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #852 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #852 in 2011; #1,560 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Rylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,560 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #852.
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Rylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 boys in 2025. Peak: #852 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 251 (2011).
In 2025, 110 US boys were named Rylen, making it the 1,560th most common boys’ name of the year, down 92 places from #1,468 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 124 boys named Rylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #852, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 251. For comparison, it was #1,068 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Rylen, making it the 3,699th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,571 places from #5,270 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 25 girls named Rylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,922, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 60. For comparison, it was #2,922 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rylen in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 4,198 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,335 babies named Rylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,496 US boys were named Rylen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 179. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,528 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rylen ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #613 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rylan (41,160 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 Reylene and Rileyn 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: Reylene (105), Rileyn (7).
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 Rylen 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 8 | #613 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,096 | #977 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,121 | #1,099 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,221 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,452 | #1,651 |
| New York | 6 | #1,715 | #1,789 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,048 | #1,061 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,699 | 110 | #1,560 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,270 | 124 | #1,468 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,516 | 132 | #1,401 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,882 | 174 | #1,177 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,393 | 141 | #1,324 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,439 | 128 | #1,377 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,710 | 169 | #1,156 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,483 | 165 | #1,165 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,983 | 174 | #1,112 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,217 | 179 | #1,101 |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,922 | 186 | #1,068 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,641 | 206 | #1,002 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,141 | 172 | #1,087 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,259 | 213 | #948 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,137 | 251 | #852 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,878 | 179 | #1,080 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,066 | 140 | #1,263 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,103 | 134 | #1,301 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,284 | 95 | #1,633 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,870 | 83 | #1,709 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,198 | 64 | #1,980 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,150 | 31 | #3,207 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,374 | 34 | #2,913 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,964 | 24 | #3,647 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,700 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,059 | 22 | #3,732 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,664 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,738 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,012 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,810 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,466 |
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).