Meaning not yet researched.
Rylea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,420 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,420 in 2004; #8,255 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rylea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,255 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,420.
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Rylea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,420 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 73 (2008).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Rylea, making it the 8,255th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8,971 places from #17,226 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 5 girls named Rylea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,420, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 73, in 2008. For comparison, it was #4,387 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rylea in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 6 babies. In all, 1,103 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 500 babies named Rylea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US girls were named Rylea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 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.
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 Rylea 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 | 13 | #8,255 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,226 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,863 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,957 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,373 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,862 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,012 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,581 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,319 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,417 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,244 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,348 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,752 | — | — |
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).