Ryland
Ryland was given to 382 boys in 2025, #706 among boys’ names; 13,985 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Ryland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ryland mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ryland is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “rye” (ryge) and “land” (land).
From Old English ryge (“rye”) + land (“land”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ryland?
#706 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryland fell from #492 in 2015 to #706 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.31 to 0.22 per 1,000.
754 babies in 2013, the peak
Ryland peaked in 2013, when 754 babies were given it (727 boys, #407 among boys’ names). The 407 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 382 | #706 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 362 | #730 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 379 | #703 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 408 | #669 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 499 | #566 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 552 | #521 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 530 | #537 | 0.30 |
| 2018 | 541 | #526 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 530 | #534 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 594 | #504 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 598 | #492 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 695 | #437 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 727 | #407 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 572 | #478 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 596 | #452 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 523 | #496 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 465 | #570 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 411 | #609 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 395 | #623 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 330 | #684 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 292 | #705 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 189 | #904 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 161 | #989 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 129 | #1,122 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,360 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,262 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,167 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,427 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,346 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 56 | #1,699 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,542 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 56 | #1,634 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 60 | #1,503 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 47 | #1,525 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,049 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,257 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,109 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,092 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,598 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,844 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,854 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,710 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,894 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,703 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,609 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,515 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,658 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,600 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,588 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,596 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,841 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,570 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,684 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,681 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,361 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,904 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,059 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,033 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,038 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,084 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,985 Americans recorded as Ryland, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 girls and 382 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryland, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 13,985 Americans ever recorded as Ryland. The median Ryland alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 9,931 people named Ryland (677 women and girls, 9,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 70 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 221 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 218 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 634 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,230 |
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 Ryland born?
The states with the most babies named Ryland are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #825 | 0.8× |
| California | 32 | #795 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 20 | #774 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 19 | #554 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 17 | #618 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #617 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 14 | #507 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 13 | #411 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 12 | #743 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #782 | 0.7× |
Where Ryland is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryland is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1912 it was given 2.7 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 Ryland 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,545 babies since 1880, Ryland is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 407 of their 424 babies (96%), 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 Ryland
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 Ryland and names like it
- Compare Ryland and RhylandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRyland peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryland since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ryland: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Ryland.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryland alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.