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Rhylan vs Rhylee

American parents have registered 2,766 Rhylees since 1880, against 1,056 Rhylans. Rhylee is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rhylan against Rhylee, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rhylan Rhylee

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

Rhylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Rhylan had 68 and Rhylee had 106.

Side by side

  Rhylan Rhylee
Total US births 1,0562,766
Most in one year 74248
Babies in 2025 4290
Estimated living today 1,0002,700
Median age today 99
Peak year 20172019
Best rank 2,566th boys1,079th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240th2,173rd
First recorded 20011993
Girls / boys 350 / 7062,504 / 262

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rhylan Rhylee
England and Wales 33223

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: Rhylan and Rhylee.