girls:
741 births since 2000
#4975 (13th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1993
#2225 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1993
#4406 (43rd percentile)
The name Rylen is the #4,406 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,897 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 43.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,225 (51.5% percentile) for all time with 3,156 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #4,975 (12.9% percentile) for all time with 741 births since 2000.
Rylen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Rylen is available in 29 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (29 years for boys and 23 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rylen has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 74.6% of babies named Rylen were boys.
For boys, Rylen reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 27.3% percentile (ranked #641) with 124 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 124 births per million (ranked 27.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rylen ranks #784 for boys (14.0% percentile) with 72 births per million, which is 58.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rylen reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #905) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 31 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rylen ranks #907 for girls (4.2% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 83.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rylen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rylen is pronounced as RAI-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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