Ryla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 41 babies a year in the US.
Ryla by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Ryla. In the US, 41 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 42 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Ryla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ryla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Ryla
Names that are said the same way as Ryla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Rillasmall stream; a form of Rill7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ryla
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