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Ryland vs Rylinn

American parents have registered 13,985 Rylands since 1880, against 561 Rylinns. Ryland is still ahead, with 407 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ryland against Rylinn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ryland Rylinn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ryland has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Ryland had 555 and Rylinn had 48.

Side by side

  Ryland Rylinn
Total US births 13,985561
Most in one year 75448
Babies in 2025 40723
Estimated living today 13,000560
Median age today 1210
Peak year 20132010
Best rank 407th boys3,360th girls
Rank in 2025 703rd5,410th
First recorded 19122003
Girls / boys 816 / 13,169556 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rylands alive today are over 12; half the Rylinns are over 10. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ryland and Rylinn.