Boy · English (modern coinage)
Rylan
Say it: RY-lun
Meaning
A modern American coinage, perhaps from the English surname Ryland ('rye land').
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Rose in the US in the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 35,579 babies given this name since 1968
- At its height in 2011, about 1 in 687 boys
- 1,300 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ryland
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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