Rylen
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · #1,554 for boys in 2025, 110 births
Given to boys 80.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 251 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,391since 1993
Rylen 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 | #3,645 | 41 | #1,554 | 110 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 | #1,397 | 132 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 | #1,171 | 174 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 | #1,320 | 141 |
| 2020 | #3,399 | 45 | #1,374 | 128 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 | #1,152 | 169 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #1,160 | 165 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | #1,110 | 174 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 | #1,096 | 179 |
| 2015 | #2,890 | 60 | #1,065 | 186 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #999 | 206 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #1,085 | 172 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #948 | 213 |
| 2011 | #4,072 | 36 | #849 | 251 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #1,080 | 179 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #1,257 | 140 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #1,294 | 134 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #1,621 | 95 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #1,967 | 64 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | — | #3,617 | 23 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rylen! It came in at #6,816, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rylen is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#241 · 1 in 685
- North Carolina#695 · 1 in 4,253
- Louisiana#717 · 1 in 3,623
- Tennessee#897 · 1 in 5,973
- Indiana#940 · 1 in 6,551
Best ever in a state: #177 in North Dakota, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #241 | 5 | 1 in 685 |
| North Carolina | #695 | 12 | 1 in 4,253 |
| Louisiana | #717 | 6 | 1 in 3,623 |
| Tennessee | #897 | 6 | 1 in 5,973 |
| Indiana | #940 | 5 | 1 in 6,551 |
| Ohio | #1,105 | 6 | 1 in 9,036 |
| Georgia | #1,158 | 6 | 1 in 8,395 |
| Florida | #1,226 | 9 | 1 in 10,306 |
| California | #1,254 | 15 | 1 in 12,625 |
| Texas | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 14,260 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
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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 Rylen
- 95 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,554)
- 180 spots since 2020 (#1,374 → #1,554)
- 489 spots since 2015 (#1,065 → #1,554)
- Biggest jump: 231 spots in 2011 (#1,080 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 137 spots in 2013 (#948 → #1,085)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2011 at #849 (251 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2011–2012
- Highest: 1 in 7,567 boys born in 2011 were named Rylen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,528 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.9% of all boys named Rylen (1,894) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 38 | #5,642 (1997) | #7,089 |
| 2000s | 650 | #1,257 (2009) | #2,465 |
| 2010s | 1,894 | #849 (2011) | #1,054 |
| 2020s | 809 | #1,171 (2022) | #1,379 |
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.
Rylen in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 51,277 of them was named Rylen, which outranked 75.5% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,245Zarya33
- #4,245Zuleyka33
- #4,245Zuriah33
- #4,326Rylen32
- #4,326Acelyn32
- #4,326Adaley32
- #4,326Adamari32
- #4,413Adelita31
- #4,413Adhira31
- #4,413Alden31
Tied with 86 names at #4,326; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 12,408 of them was named Rylen, which outranked 90.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,317Antoine142
- #1,317Asaiah142
- #1,317Smith142
- #1,320Rylen141
- #1,320Jasiel141
- #1,320Kain141
- #1,320Kenai141
- #1,325Aleksander140
- #1,325Brexton140
- #1,325Jadon140
Tied with 4 names at #1,320; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.