Rylan
Rylan is given to both girls and boys: 190 girls and 771 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,203 among girls’ names and #416 among boys’, #675 among all names counting both); 41,160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 40,700 Americans named Rylan 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rylan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rylan is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “rye field” (meaning).
Possibly a variant of Ryland, meaning “rye field” and from Old English.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rylan?
#416 among boys’ names, 2025
Rylan fell from #241 in 2015 to #416 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.81 to 0.45 per 1,000.
3,164 babies in 2011, the peak
Rylan peaked in 2011, when 3,164 babies were given it (2,766 boys, #146 among boys’ names). The 961 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | #1,993 | 746 | #373 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,314 | 603 | #425 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,403 | 500 | #475 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,866 | 458 | #499 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,966 | 363 | #568 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,297 | 297 | #612 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,898 | 259 | #662 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,103 | 169 | #842 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,996 | 115 | #1,064 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,501 | 84 | #1,280 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,017 | 102 | #1,122 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 78 | #1,289 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,029 | 84 | #1,230 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 85 | #1,202 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 54 | #1,551 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 49 | #1,634 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 59 | #1,349 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 56 | #1,332 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 46 | #1,487 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 45 | #1,500 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 34 | #1,712 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 31 | #1,807 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 26 | #2,101 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 28 | #1,980 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 40 | #1,542 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 19 | #2,540 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 22 | #2,190 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 23 | #2,118 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 14 | #2,925 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 17 | #2,518 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,552 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 10 | #3,406 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,875 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #4,058 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 41,160 Americans recorded as Rylan, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylan, and how old are they?
40,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 41,160 Americans ever recorded as Rylan. The median Rylan alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 31,162 people named Rylan (4,727 women and girls, 26,435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34,319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 965 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,200 |
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 Rylan born?
The states with the most babies named Rylan are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 96 | #448 | 0.9× |
| California | 60 | #589 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 53 | #432 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 47 | #302 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 42 | #348 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 37 | #424 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 31 | #370 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #414 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 31 | #314 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 28 | #396 | 0.8× |
Where Rylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rylan is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1968 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 boys’ 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 Rylan 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 47,570 babies since 1880, Rylan is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 961 of their 1,207 babies (80%), again the 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 Rylan
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 Rylan and names like it
- Compare Rylan and RylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylan peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rylan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Rylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.