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Rylie vs Rylo

American parents have registered 24,485 Rylies since 1880, against 731 Rylos. Rylie is still ahead, with 665 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rylie against Rylo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rylie 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

Rylie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1983 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Rylie had 665 and Rylo had 191.

Side by side

  Rylie Rylo
Total US births 24,485731
Most in one year 1,114191
Babies in 2025 665191
Estimated living today 24,000730
Median age today 142
Peak year 20082025
Best rank 318th girls1,118th boys
Rank in 2025 476th1,118th
First recorded 19832016
Girls / boys 23,271 / 1,2140 / 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 Rylies alive today are over 14; half the Rylos are over 2. That is 12 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 Rylie Rylo
England and Wales 77039

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: Rylie and Rylo.