Nameling

Rylyn

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
RY-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Rylyn is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

Where does Rylyn come from?

Modern: spelling of Rylynn; blend of Riley and Lynn

Meaning borrowed from Rylynn.

Is Rylyn a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Rylyn has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls and 13 boys in the US.

How popular is Rylyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 48% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Rylyn, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2013, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998. 13 boys were also named Rylyn in 2025 (6,442nd for boys).

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Rylyn than any year since 2003.

Half of all the girls named Rylyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 352 girls in the US were given Rylyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #766, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

In 2023, 66% of the babies named Rylyn in the US were girls.

1998Busiest: 40 in 20132025
Rylyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
202415#7,247
202321#5,747
202226#5,025
202126#4,960
202030#4,451
201934#4,161
201829#4,660
201732#4,383
201626#5,129
201529#4,724
201427#5,023
201340#3,776
201232#4,484
201139#3,842
201036#4,106
200934#4,369
200839#4,005
200732#4,566
200635#4,164
200527#4,824
200427#4,812
200312#8,500
20020–
200112#8,189
20000–
19997#11,378
19988#10,116

Names like Rylyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Rylyn

Names related to Rylyn

More Modern names

Every Modern name

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, “Rylyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rylyn, updated 20 October 2026.