Meaning not yet researched.
Rye: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,934 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,934 in 2020; #2,531 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Rye in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,531 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,934.
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Rye: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,934 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 76 (2020).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Rye, making it the 2,531st most common boys’ name of the year, down 91 places from #2,440 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 57 boys named Rye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,934, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #2,950 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Rye, making it the 9,351st most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #6,421, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19. For comparison, it was #12,795 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rye in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,236 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 485 babies named Rye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 563 US boys were named Rye; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rye ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,046 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Rio (7,812 babies since 1880), Riya (6,273 babies since 1880) and Ria (4,115 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Rye in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,046 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,745 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,351 | 53 | #2,531 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,440 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,574 | 56 | #2,431 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,421 | 61 | #2,345 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,634 | 54 | #2,488 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,132 | 76 | #1,934 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,632 | 62 | #2,256 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,701 | 64 | #2,187 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,531 | 34 | #3,366 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,678 | 46 | #2,682 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,795 | 40 | #2,950 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,769 | 31 | #3,517 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,777 | 30 | #3,565 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,016 | 43 | #2,807 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,680 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,074 | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,254 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,441 | 14 | #6,336 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,947 | 20 | #4,765 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,341 |
| 2005 | — | — | 20 | #4,430 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,197 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,182 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,195 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #5,087 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,229 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,208 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,515 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,890 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,024 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,598 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,465 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,729 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,112 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,300 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,363 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,579 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,382 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,409 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,768 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,717 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,946 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,165 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,864 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,876 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,520 |
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).