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Rylie vs Rylin

American parents have registered 24,485 Rylies since 1880, against 2,852 Rylins. Rylie is still ahead, with 665 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rylie Rylin

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 Rylin had 174.

Side by side

  Rylie Rylin
Total US births 24,4852,852
Most in one year 1,114190
Babies in 2025 66588
Estimated living today 24,0002,800
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 318th girls1,758th girls
Rank in 2025 476th3,130th
First recorded 19831994
Girls / boys 23,271 / 1,2141,787 / 1,065

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 Rylins are over 11. That is 3 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.

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