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Rhylan vs Rhyzen

American parents have registered 1,056 Rhylans since 1880, against 50 Rhyzens. Rhylan is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rhylan against Rhyzen, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rhylan 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

Rhylan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2001 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Rhylan had 41 and Rhyzen had 16.

Side by side

  Rhylan Rhyzen
Total US births 1,05650
Most in one year 7418
Babies in 2025 4216
Estimated living today 1,00050
Median age today 91
Peak year 20172023
Best rank 2,566th boys5,255th boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th5,608th
First recorded 20012023
Girls / boys 350 / 7060 / 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 Rhylans alive today are over 9; half the Rhyzens are over 1. That is 8 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: Rhylan and Rhyzen.