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Rylee vs Rylo

American parents have registered 74,557 Rylees since 1880, against 731 Rylos. Rylee is still ahead, with 2,202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rylee Rylo

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 2025, when Rylee had 2,202 and Rylo had 191.

Side by side

  Rylee Rylo
Total US births 74,557731
Most in one year 3,298191
Babies in 2025 2,202191
Estimated living today 74,000730
Median age today 132
Peak year 20102025
Best rank 102nd girls1,118th boys
Rank in 2025 137th1,118th
First recorded 19802016
Girls / boys 69,010 / 5,5470 / 731

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 Rylos are over 2. That is 11 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rylee Rylo
England and Wales 2,05539

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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