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Rylie vs Rylyn

American parents have registered 24,485 Rylies since 1880, against 905 Rylyns. Rylie is still ahead, with 665 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rylie 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

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 2013, when Rylie had 871 and Rylyn had 60.

Side by side

  Rylie Rylyn
Total US births 24,485905
Most in one year 1,11460
Babies in 2025 66525
Estimated living today 24,000900
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20082013
Best rank 318th girls3,778th girls
Rank in 2025 476th8,362nd
First recorded 19831998
Girls / boys 23,271 / 1,214687 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Rylies alive today are over 14; half the Rylyns are over 12. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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