Rylen
Rylen is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 110 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,698 among girls’ names and #1,560 among boys’, #2,688 among all names counting both); 4,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Rylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rylen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rylen is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Rare variant of Rylan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rylen?
#1,560 among boys’ names, 2025
Rylen fell from #1,068 in 2015 to #1,560 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 97.0 to 64.4 per million.
287 babies in 2011, the peak
Rylen peaked in 2011, when 287 babies were given it (251 boys, #852 among boys’ names). The 151 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,698 | 110 | #1,560 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,267 | 124 | #1,468 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,515 | 132 | #1,401 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,879 | 174 | #1,177 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,389 | 141 | #1,324 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,439 | 128 | #1,377 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,709 | 169 | #1,156 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,482 | 165 | #1,165 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,982 | 174 | #1,112 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,217 | 179 | #1,101 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,922 | 186 | #1,068 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,639 | 206 | #1,002 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,139 | 172 | #1,087 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,258 | 213 | #948 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,136 | 251 | #852 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,877 | 179 | #1,080 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,065 | 140 | #1,263 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,100 | 134 | #1,301 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,280 | 95 | #1,633 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,868 | 83 | #1,709 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,193 | 64 | #1,976 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,145 | 31 | #3,203 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,367 | 34 | #2,909 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,958 | 24 | #3,642 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 23 | #3,695 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,051 | 22 | #3,726 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,657 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,731 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #6,006 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,803 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,460 |
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 Rylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,198 Americans recorded as Rylen, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylen, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,198 Americans ever recorded as Rylen. The median Rylen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,853 people named Rylen (547 women and girls, 2,306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,570 |
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 Rylen born?
The states with the most babies named Rylen are Texas, Florida and Alabama, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,048 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,452 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 8 | #613 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,096 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,121 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,715 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,221 | 0.2× |
Where Rylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rylen is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1993 it was given 1.6 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 Rylen 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, Rylen is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 1,207 babies (13%), again the second 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 Rylen
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 Rylen and names like it
- Compare Rylen and RylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylen peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Rylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.