Meaning not yet researched.
Reilly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #623 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #623 in 1998; #2,855 in 2025. About 56% of babies named Reilly in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,855 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #623.
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Reilly: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #623 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 379 (1998).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Reilly, making it the 2,855th most common girls’ name of the year, down 141 places from #2,714 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 64 girls named Reilly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #623, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 379. For comparison, it was #2,137 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Reilly, making it the 2,708th most common boys’ name of the year, up 114 places from #2,822 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 46 boys named Reilly in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #806, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 218, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,800 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reilly in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 6 babies. In all, 10,088 US babies have been given the name, 55% of them girls and 45% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,353 babies named Reilly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 712 US girls were named Reilly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reilly ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,139 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Riley (246,985 babies since 1880) and Reiley (942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reyly and Reili are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reyly (42), Reili (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Reilly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,139 | #922 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,369 | #1,415 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,572 | #1,587 |
| New York | 6 | #2,022 | #1,200 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,855 | 48 | #2,708 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,714 | 46 | #2,822 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,261 | 56 | #2,429 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,678 | 55 | #2,509 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,666 | 60 | #2,319 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,236 | 51 | #2,538 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,267 | 72 | #2,037 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,472 | 71 | #2,039 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,422 | 64 | #2,151 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,013 | 95 | #1,671 |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,137 | 84 | #1,800 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,152 | 104 | #1,546 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,936 | 114 | #1,457 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,870 | 149 | #1,205 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,569 | 143 | #1,226 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,581 | 163 | #1,142 |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,438 | 172 | #1,084 |
| 2008 | 193 | #1,293 | 210 | #958 |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,246 | 218 | #911 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,321 | 174 | #1,046 |
| 2005 | 241 | #1,014 | 178 | #978 |
| 2004 | 268 | #907 | 168 | #990 |
| 2003 | 276 | #876 | 196 | #875 |
| 2002 | 305 | #776 | 204 | #823 |
| 2001 | 325 | #738 | 202 | #817 |
| 2000 | 289 | #795 | 194 | #827 |
| 1999 | 324 | #699 | 174 | #872 |
| 1998 | 379 | #623 | 159 | #908 |
| 1997 | 360 | #623 | 183 | #806 |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,075 | 143 | #921 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,744 | 95 | #1,189 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,837 | 66 | #1,467 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,030 | 70 | #1,393 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,021 | 54 | #1,633 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,027 | 45 | #1,790 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,392 | 43 | #1,834 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,477 | 25 | #2,596 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,821 | 32 | #2,024 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,825 | 19 | #2,809 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,903 | 35 | #1,784 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,037 | 39 | #1,640 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,702 | 16 | #2,921 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,741 | 13 | #3,378 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,027 | 11 | #3,900 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,687 | 11 | #3,802 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,949 | 5 | #7,058 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,753 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,423 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,128 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,830 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,504 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,710 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).