Rilynn
Rilynn was given to 126 girls in 2025, #1,649 among girls’ names; 3,730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Rilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rilynn?
#1,649 among girls’ names, 2025
Rilynn fell from #1,103 in 2015 to #1,649 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.08 per 1,000.
264 babies in 2018, the peak
Rilynn peaked in 2018, when 264 babies were given it (257 girls, #1,012 among girls’ names). The 131 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,649 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,538 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,266 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 223 | #1,111 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 225 | #1,086 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 255 | #1,009 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 257 | #1,012 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,012 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 243 | #1,077 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 236 | #1,103 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,116 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 222 | #1,103 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 197 | #1,235 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,155 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,072 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,133 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,744 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,548 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,347 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,699 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,497 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,032 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,730 Americans recorded as Rilynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 126 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rilynn, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,730 Americans ever recorded as Rilynn. The median Rilynn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,360 people named Rilynn (2,305 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 966 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rilynn born?
The states with the most babies named Rilynn are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,448 | 0.7× |
| California | 8 | #2,446 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,838 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,207 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,409 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,154 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,634 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,050 | 0.9× |
Where Rilynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rilynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1999 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rilynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,939 babies since 1880, Rilynn is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 399 babies (33%), the second most given that year.
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 Rilynn
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 Rilynn and names like it
- Compare Rilynn and RylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRilynn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rilynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Rilynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rilynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.