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Rylee vs Rylinn

American parents have registered 74,557 Rylees since 1880, against 561 Rylinns. Rylee is still ahead, with 2,202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rylee against Rylinn, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rylee 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

Rylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Rylee had 3,298 and Rylinn had 48.

Side by side

  Rylee Rylinn
Total US births 74,557561
Most in one year 3,29848
Babies in 2025 2,20223
Estimated living today 74,000560
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20102010
Best rank 102nd girls3,360th girls
Rank in 2025 137th5,410th
First recorded 19802003
Girls / boys 69,010 / 5,547556 / 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 Rylees alive today are over 13; half the Rylinns are over 10. That is 3 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: Rylee and Rylinn.