Rilyn
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 89.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 100 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,279since 1999
Rilyn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #3,451 | 45 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #2,508 | 71 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #2,458 | 73 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #2,058 | 94 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rilyn! It came in at #14,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1999–2000, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Rilyn is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#329 · 1 in 1,321
- Iowa#563 · 1 in 2,506
- Louisiana#814 · 1 in 3,940
- Colorado#878 · 1 in 4,481
- Ohio#1,225 · 1 in 8,596
Best ever in a state: #329 in West Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #329 | 5 | 1 in 1,321 |
| Iowa | #563 | 5 | 1 in 2,506 |
| Louisiana | #814 | 5 | 1 in 3,940 |
| Colorado | #878 | 5 | 1 in 4,481 |
| Ohio | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 10,551 |
| Florida | #1,404 | 8 | 1 in 9,953 |
| New York | #2,242 | 5 | 1 in 18,454 |
| California | #3,104 | 6 | 1 in 34,847 |
| Texas | #3,183 | 5 | 1 in 31,663 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rilyn
- 253 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #4,460)
- 1,281 spots since 2020 (#3,179 → #4,460)
- 2,078 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #4,460)
- Debuted 1999
- Peaked 2012 at #1,955 (100 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,611 girls born in 2012 were named Rilyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,847 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 56.8% of all girls named Rilyn (727) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #14,411 (1999) | #14,411 |
| 2000s | 284 | #2,892 (2009) | #6,261 |
| 2010s | 727 | #1,955 (2012) | #2,556 |
| 2020s | 263 | #2,958 (2021) | #3,607 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rilyn in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 17,611 of them was named Rilyn, which outranked 90.0% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,940Sabine101
- #1,940Sahasra101
- #1,940Starr101
- #1,955Rilyn100
- #1,955Aja100
- #1,955Caliyah100
- #1,955Debora100
- #1,973Alyna99
- #1,973Anistyn99
- #1,973Fatimah99
Tied with 17 names at #1,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 94,847 of them was named Rilyn, which outranked 67.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,533Zedekiah21
- #4,533Zeeshan21
- #4,533Zhane21
- #4,686Rilyn20
- #4,686Abdimalik20
- #4,686Abir20
- #4,686Adham20
- #4,862Aadil19
- #4,862Abdulmalik19
- #4,862Abdurahman19
Tied with 175 names at #4,686; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.