Rylan is a variant of the Old English name Ryland. It translates to ‘land where rye is grown’.
Rylan is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
The name Rylan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Rylan ranks 252. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 8 were named Rylan. In the entire USA, approximately 35,309 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rylan. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Rylan is a variant of the Old English name Ryland. It translates to ‘land where rye is grown’.
What is rye? Rye is a type of cereal grain that is closely related to wheat and barley. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant crop.
Rylan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Rylan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #124 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2011. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Rylan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Rylan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rylan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,122 babies were named Rylan in 2022 - that's 1 in 188,582 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Rylan ranked 293 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Rylan may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Rylan is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,919 men in Alaska is called Rylan. In total, that’s 131 people who feel addressed when the name Rylan is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #282 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Rylan as the answer a total of 35,309 times. This places Rylan at #558 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Rylan as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Rylan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rylan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rylan, you can simply say:
Rocket
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
L
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
Y
L
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rylan sounds like this:
