Rylyn
Rylyn is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,769 among girls’ names and #6,729 among boys’, #9,028 among all names counting both); 905 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rylyn?
#8,769 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylyn fell from #4,829 in 2015 to #8,769 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 7.5 per million.
60 babies in 2013, the peak
Rylyn peaked in 2013, when 60 babies were given it (40 girls, #3,834 among girls’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,769 | 13 | #6,729 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,527 | 10 | #8,199 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,915 | 11 | #7,643 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,142 | 9 | #8,852 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,066 | 10 | #8,047 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,521 | 10 | #7,944 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,251 | 7 | #10,594 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,751 | 8 | #9,500 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,466 | 15 | #6,012 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,257 | 10 | #8,048 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,829 | 9 | #8,594 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,143 | 15 | #5,934 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,834 | 20 | #4,761 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,582 | 11 | #7,443 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,899 | 13 | #6,509 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,166 | 5 | #13,861 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,460 | 12 | #7,145 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,072 | 11 | #7,602 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,647 | 8 | #9,593 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,245 | 5 | #13,622 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,934 | 6 | #11,192 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,920 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,948 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,625 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,382 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,917 | under 5 |
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 Rylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 905 Americans recorded as Rylyn, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 898 Americans named Rylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Rylyn (506 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rylyn?
Rylyn is a less common spelling of Rilynn: SSA has recorded 905 Rylyn and 3,730 Rilynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,537 babies since 1880, Rylyn is the fifth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 486 babies (5.1%), again the fifth 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 Rylyn
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 Rylyn and names like it
- Compare Rylyn and RilynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylyn peaked in 2013.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Rylyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rylyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.