Rylo is a "modern coinage" of the 2010s with no inherited meaning; it pairs the Ry- of Riley and Ryder with the -lo ending of Milo and Arlo. The rapper Rylo Rodriguez from Mobile, Alabama, brought the name into wider circulation around 2019 and 2020. Rylo was unrecorded in the United States in 2000, ranked number 13821 in 2016 and has rocketed to number 1120 in 2025, its best rank so far.