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Rhylan

Rhylan is a boy's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 2,566th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 1,000 Rhylans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rhylan boys named Rhylan

Girls and boys called Rhylan

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 350 girls and 706 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 6 to 36.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 18 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,056
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
9
Peak year
2017
Best rank
2,566th
Rank in 2025
3,240th
First recorded
2001
Girls / boys
350 / 706

How old the living Rhylans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,056 babies given the name since 2001, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Rhylan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rhylan is most concentrated in Texas (6.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Rhylan peaked:

All the names of 2017

Rhylan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rhylan 33 2,270th
Northern Ireland boys Rhylan 5 311th
Scotland boys Rhylan 3 626th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Rhylan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.