Rylynn
Rylynn was given to 140 girls in 2025, #1,523 among girls’ names; 3,243 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Rylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rylynn?
#1,523 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylynn fell from #1,301 in 2015 to #1,523 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.09 per 1,000.
218 babies in 2016, the peak
Rylynn peaked in 2016, when 218 babies were given it (209 girls, #1,196 among girls’ names). The 149 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | #1,523 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,790 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,533 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 195 | #1,237 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 184 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 205 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,214 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 209 | #1,196 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 185 | #1,301 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,299 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 176 | #1,334 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 189 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,893 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,371 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,625 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,087 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,549 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,097 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,923 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,384 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,081 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,830 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,338 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,243 Americans recorded as Rylynn, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 140 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylynn, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,243 Americans ever recorded as Rylynn. The median Rylynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,007 people named Rylynn (1,915 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 822 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,390 |
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 Rylynn born?
The states with the most babies named Rylynn are Texas, Ohio and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,397 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 13 | #737 | 2.0× |
| California | 9 | #2,247 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 8 | #799 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,020 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,104 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,507 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,018 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,643 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,280 | 0.5× |
Where Rylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rylynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1996 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 Rylynn 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 13,560 babies since 1880, Rylynn is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 487 babies (31%), the most given that year.
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 Rylynn
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 Rylynn and names like it
- Compare Rylynn and RilynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylynn peaked in 2016.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Rylynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rylynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.