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Ryleigh vs Rylinn

American parents have registered 35,576 Ryleighs since 1880, against 561 Rylinns. Ryleigh is still ahead, with 899 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ryleigh against Rylinn, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ryleigh 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

Ryleigh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Ryleigh had 1,692 and Rylinn had 48.

Side by side

  Ryleigh Rylinn
Total US births 35,576561
Most in one year 2,04148
Babies in 2025 89923
Estimated living today 35,000560
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20192010
Best rank 138th girls3,360th girls
Rank in 2025 343rd5,410th
First recorded 19862003
Girls / boys 35,139 / 437556 / 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.

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: Ryleigh and Rylinn.