Rilan
Rilan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,718 among boys’ names; 253 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rilan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rilan?
#11,718 among boys’ names, 2025
Rilan fell from #5,685 in 2015 to #11,718 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
23 babies in 2012, the peak
Rilan peaked in 2012, when 23 boys were given it, #4,356 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,718 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,745 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,905 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,036 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,939 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,720 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,032 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,904 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,734 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,685 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,632 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,534 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,356 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,883 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,875 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,018 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,099 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,767 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,816 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,532 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,878 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,111 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rilan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 253 Americans recorded as Rilan, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rilan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rilan, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Rilan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Rilan (47 women and girls, 217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Rilan?
Rilan is a less common spelling of Rylan: SSA has recorded 253 Rilan and 41,160 Rylan since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 47,285 babies since 1880, Rilan is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,180 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rilan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rilan and names like it
- Compare Rilan and RylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRilan peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Rilan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rilan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.