Rylan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A rare surname from Old English (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Rylan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 31,162 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 75K
- CACanada≈1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
31,162 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A rare surname from Old English.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Rylan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rylan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 31,162 | 1 in 11K | 26K | Rylan | 306 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 16 | Rylan | 126 |
| AU Australia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 17 | Rylan | 70 |
| PH Philippines | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Rylan | 17 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Rylan | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | 91 | 1 in 190K | 91 | Rylan | 14 |
31,162 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rylan Clarkb. 1988GBEnglish television and radio presenter, singer and model
- Rylan Kissellb. 2002USAmerican sport shooter
- Rylan J. LundgrenCAresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rylan a male or female name?
- Rylan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Rylan mean, and where does it come from?
- A rare surname from Old English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Rylan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Rylan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rylan. After it come Canada, Australia, Philippines and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rylan most common?
- Rylan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rylan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,162 people named Rylan in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rylan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rylanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rylan” — ranked 1227th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.