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.
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 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 32,445 of them was named Rylan, which outranked 84.2% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,329Sherrick60
- #1,329Timmothy60
- #1,329Valentino60
- #1,341Rylan59
- #1,341Benedict59
- #1,341Bobbie59
- #1,341Deontae59
- #1,355Amar58
- #1,355Benson58
- #1,355Demetrice58
Tied with 13 names at #1,341; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.