Ryland — #728 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ryland

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,781 babies named Ryland between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ryland currently holds the #728 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 727 babies received it in a single year. Ryland is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 790 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ryland performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,905 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ryland shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,080 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ryland in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ryland in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,781 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.