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Rhyan vs Rhyzen

American parents have registered 4,609 Rhyans since 1880, against 50 Rhyzens. Rhyan is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rhyan against Rhyzen, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rhyan Rhyzen

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

Rhyan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Rhyan had 64 and Rhyzen had 16.

Side by side

  Rhyan Rhyzen
Total US births 4,60950
Most in one year 20318
Babies in 2025 6416
Estimated living today 4,50050
Median age today 151
Peak year 20182023
Best rank 1,367th girls5,255th boys
Rank in 2025 3,249th5,608th
First recorded 19692023
Girls / boys 3,097 / 1,5120 / 50

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 Rhyans alive today are over 15; half the Rhyzens are over 1. That is 14 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: Rhyan and Rhyzen.