Meaning not yet researched.
Rilee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,351 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,351 in 2010; #6,070 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Rilee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,070 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,351.
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Rilee: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,351 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 180 (2008).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Rilee, making it the 6,070th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,877 places from #4,193 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 35 girls named Rilee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,351, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 180, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,716 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Rilee, making it the 13,479th most common boys’ name of the year, up 345 places from #13,824 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Rilee in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,575, reached in 2007. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 2009. For comparison, it was #5,690 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rilee in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 8 babies. In all, 3,742 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,554 babies named Rilee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 732 US girls were named Rilee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Riley (246,985 babies since 1880), Rylee (74,557 babies since 1880), Rylie (24,485 babies since 1880) and Ryley (7,197 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Rilee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,070 | 5 | #13,479 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,193 | 5 | #13,824 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,928 | 7 | #10,576 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,406 | 7 | #10,620 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,208 | 8 | #9,514 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,149 | 8 | #9,381 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,916 | 8 | #9,569 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,143 | 9 | #8,685 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,279 | 7 | #10,543 |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,688 | 17 | #5,507 |
| 2015 | 123 | #1,716 | 16 | #5,690 |
| 2014 | 128 | #1,664 | 21 | #4,669 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,641 | 19 | #4,936 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,475 | 27 | #3,865 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,630 | 27 | #3,872 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,351 | 12 | #7,007 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,476 | 30 | #3,617 |
| 2008 | 180 | #1,353 | 24 | #4,235 |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,467 | 30 | #3,575 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,434 | 22 | #4,338 |
| 2005 | 157 | #1,376 | 17 | #4,988 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,484 | 18 | #4,749 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,518 | 17 | #4,773 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,668 | 13 | #5,659 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,955 | 14 | #5,345 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,011 | 8 | #8,049 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,197 | 8 | #7,728 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,526 | 6 | #9,395 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,067 | 8 | #6,854 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,876 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,892 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,358 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,577 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,844 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,317 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,129 | — | — |
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).