Rylan
#1,200 for girls in 2025, 190 births · #416 for boys in 2025, 771 births
Given to boys 83.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 2,766 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 34,532since 1968
Rylan 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 | #1,200 | 190 | #416 | 771 |
| 2024 | #1,125 | 215 | #369 | 886 |
| 2023 | #1,024 | 247 | #376 | 855 |
| 2022 | #984 | 269 | #376 | 862 |
| 2021 | #950 | 277 | #339 | 958 |
| 2020 | #868 | 310 | #327 | 1,008 |
| 2019 | #869 | 308 | #325 | 1,025 |
| 2018 | #782 | 349 | #292 | 1,197 |
| 2017 | #794 | 345 | #287 | 1,264 |
| 2016 | #762 | 374 | #256 | 1,402 |
| 2015 | #875 | 318 | #241 | 1,555 |
| 2014 | #811 | 343 | #220 | 1,743 |
| 2013 | #815 | 330 | #202 | 1,896 |
| 2012 | #742 | 374 | #179 | 2,171 |
| 2011 | #700 | 398 | #146 | 2,766 |
| 2010 | #792 | 348 | #183 | 2,057 |
| 2009 | #861 | 323 | #196 | 1,951 |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 | #217 | 1,747 |
| 2007 | #1,137 | 226 | #257 | 1,375 |
| 2006 | #1,133 | 218 | #259 | 1,328 |
| 2005 | #1,362 | 159 | #281 | 1,180 |
| 2004 | #1,989 | 93 | #372 | 746 |
| 2003 | #2,301 | 73 | #425 | 603 |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 | #475 | 500 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 | #499 | 458 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | #567 | 363 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #612 | 297 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #661 | 259 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #843 | 169 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #1,060 | 115 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #1,119 | 102 |
| 1993 | — | #1,288 | 78 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | — | #1,202 | 85 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,547 | 54 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,615 | 49 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,341 | 59 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,316 | 56 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,476 | 46 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,485 | 45 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,690 | 34 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,787 | 31 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,059 | 26 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,942 | 28 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,524 | 40 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,465 | 19 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,134 | 22 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,063 | 23 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,450 | 17 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rylan! It came in at #3,673, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rylan is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#128 · 1 in 508
- Alaska#155 · 1 in 433
- Mississippi#164 · 1 in 580
- Tennessee#178 · 1 in 711
- West Virginia#180 · 1 in 625
Best ever in a state: #29 in North Dakota, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #128 | 45 | 1 in 508 |
| Alaska | #155 | 7 | 1 in 433 |
| Mississippi | #164 | 23 | 1 in 580 |
| Tennessee | #178 | 51 | 1 in 711 |
| West Virginia | #180 | 12 | 1 in 625 |
| Kentucky | #184 | 31 | 1 in 698 |
| Missouri | #199 | 39 | 1 in 785 |
| Montana | #201 | 6 | 1 in 604 |
| Delaware | #208 | 5 | 1 in 688 |
| North Dakota | #210 | 6 | 1 in 675 |
| Arkansas | #211 | 19 | 1 in 722 |
| Louisiana | #222 | 28 | 1 in 852 |
| Virginia | #224 | 41 | 1 in 994 |
| Connecticut | #227 | 13 | 1 in 1,080 |
| Hawaii | #229 | 6 | 1 in 706 |
| Ohio | #230 | 57 | 1 in 1,024 |
| Oklahoma | #230 | 22 | 1 in 879 |
| Wisconsin | #232 | 27 | 1 in 963 |
| Kansas | #234 | 17 | 1 in 885 |
| South Carolina | #242 | 21 | 1 in 1,000 |
| Nebraska | #245 | 11 | 1 in 888 |
| Indiana | #249 | 33 | 1 in 1,044 |
| Pennsylvania | #249 | 49 | 1 in 1,188 |
| Minnesota | #254 | 25 | 1 in 1,083 |
| North Carolina | #262 | 44 | 1 in 1,166 |
| Georgia | #263 | 47 | 1 in 1,142 |
| Colorado | #267 | 25 | 1 in 1,058 |
| Iowa | #267 | 14 | 1 in 1,061 |
| Washington | #279 | 30 | 1 in 1,185 |
| Texas | #282 | 136 | 1 in 1,295 |
| Idaho | #289 | 8 | 1 in 988 |
| Michigan | #291 | 33 | 1 in 1,407 |
| Oregon | #306 | 14 | 1 in 1,241 |
| Nevada | #331 | 9 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Florida | #336 | 54 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Arizona | #338 | 23 | 1 in 1,506 |
| Illinois | #341 | 36 | 1 in 1,720 |
| Massachusetts | #369 | 13 | 1 in 2,217 |
| California | #379 | 100 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Utah | #385 | 12 | 1 in 1,694 |
| New Mexico | #390 | 5 | 1 in 1,620 |
| Maryland | #406 | 13 | 1 in 2,039 |
| New York | #518 | 30 | 1 in 3,252 |
| New Jersey | #661 | 9 | 1 in 4,539 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Rylan
- 47 spots since 2024 (#369 → #416)
- 89 spots since 2020 (#327 → #416)
- 175 spots since 2015 (#241 → #416)
- Biggest jump: 217 spots in 1997 (#1,060 → #843)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2025 (#369 → #416)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2011 at #146 (2,766 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 687 boys born in 2011 were named Rylan (0.15%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,215 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 49.4% of all boys named Rylan (17,076) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,673 |
| 1970s | 118 | #2,063 (1977) | #2,974 |
| 1980s | 414 | #1,316 (1987) | #1,624 |
| 1990s | 1,327 | #612 (1999) | #1,084 |
| 2000s | 10,251 | #196 (2009) | #355 |
| 2010s | 17,076 | #146 (2011) | #233 |
| 2020s | 5,340 | #327 (2020) | #367 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rylan in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,004 of them was named Rylan, which outranked 95.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #791Adele347
- #791Keyla347
- #791Landry347
- #794Rylan345
- #794Lailah345
- #794Perla345
- #797Avalynn344
- #797Miah344
- #799Angelique342
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,464 of them was named Rylan, which outranked 98.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.