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Rylee vs Rylyn

American parents have registered 74,557 Rylees since 1880, against 905 Rylyns. Rylee is still ahead, with 2,202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rylee Rylyn

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 2013, when Rylee had 3,112 and Rylyn had 60.

Side by side

  Rylee Rylyn
Total US births 74,557905
Most in one year 3,29860
Babies in 2025 2,20225
Estimated living today 74,000900
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20102013
Best rank 102nd girls3,778th girls
Rank in 2025 137th8,362nd
First recorded 19801998
Girls / boys 69,010 / 5,547687 / 218

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.

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