Rhylen
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- RY-lan
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,538 for boys
Rhylen is a name of English origin, meaning “rye land”. In 2025 it ranked 4,538th for boys in the US (22 babies).
What does Rhylen mean?
English: spelling of Rhylan, itself a spelling variant of Rylan, from the surname Ryland
“rye land”
Meaning borrowed from Rhylan.
Is Rhylen a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Rhylen has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 22 boys in the US.
How popular is Rhylen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,538th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 78,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 22 boys in the US were named Rhylen, making it the 4,538th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. It first appears in the records in 2009. 5 girls were also named Rhylen in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Rhylen of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Rhylen in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 96 boys in the US were given Rhylen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,518, up from #4,538 for this spelling alone.
Rhylen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,538 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,062 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,236 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
Names like Rhylen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raiden, Kayden, Rayden, Brayden, Finnegan, Deacon, Ronan, Brecken, Cannon, Aiden, Finn, Declan
Other spellings of Rhylen
Names related to Rhylen
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rhylen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rhylen, updated 20 October 2026.