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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 108,794 of them was named Rylan, which outranked 63.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,626Zoila17
- #5,626Zuleika17
- #5,626Zykeria17
- #5,868Rylan16
- #5,868Aalayah16
- #5,868Acadia16
- #5,868Adaline16
- #6,163Abigayl15
- #6,163Adam15
- #6,163Adriannah15
Tied with 294 names at #5,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 11,155 of them was named Rylan, which outranked 92.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).