Meaning not yet researched.
Rylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,118 in 2025. Its best rank was #97 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #97 in 2021; #137 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Rylee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#137 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #97.
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Rylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,118 girls in 2025. Peak: #97 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 2,984 (2010).
In 2025, 2,118 US girls were named Rylee, making it the 137th most common girls’ name of the year, down 12 places from #125 in 2024. That is 119 fewer than the 2,237 girls named Rylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #97, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,984, in 2010. For comparison, it was #120 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rylee in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 7 babies. In all, 74,557 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 30,579 babies named Rylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26,222 US girls were named Rylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,969. In 2025 that was about 1 in 759 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rylee ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #69 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 13 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryley (7,197 babies since 1880), Rilee (3,742 babies since 1880), Riley (246,985 babies since 1880) and Rylie (24,485 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ryli, Ryelee and Ryliee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ryli (731), Ryelee (340), Ryliee (165), Ryleah (111), Ryllie (72), Reylee (28), Rylii (6), Ryleeh (5).
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 Rylee 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 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 29 | #69 | #48 |
| Oklahoma | 43 | #75 | #50 |
| Wisconsin | 57 | #81 | #116 |
| Kentucky | 49 | #82 | #86 |
| Minnesota | 59 | #83 | #122 |
| Ohio | 112 | #83 | #87 |
| Tennessee | 81 | #85 | #77 |
| Missouri | 63 | #87 | #95 |
| Nebraska | 22 | #93 | #102 |
| South Dakota | 11 | #94 | #54 |
| Alabama | 45 | #98 | #65 |
| Montana | 10 | #100 | #84 |
| Idaho | 21 | #100 | #57 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #101 | #125 |
| Michigan | 78 | #101 | #90 |
| Nevada | 21 | #103 | #129 |
| Louisiana | 37 | #108 | #75 |
| Georgia | 84 | #112 | #100 |
| Oregon | 30 | #113 | #162 |
| South Carolina | 39 | #113 | #83 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #118 | #68 |
| North Carolina | 74 | #135 | #147 |
| Utah | 33 | #137 | #77 |
| Florida | 133 | #137 | #127 |
| New Mexico | 11 | #141 | #269 |
| Maryland | 34 | #143 | #184 |
| Kansas | 23 | #146 | #66 |
| Iowa | 22 | #150 | #95 |
| Indiana | 46 | #152 | #119 |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #154 | #106 |
| Delaware | 6 | #162 | #79 |
| Washington | 45 | #163 | #100 |
| Maine | 7 | #170 | #83 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #171 | #99 |
| Virginia | 46 | #180 | #131 |
| New York | 90 | #182 | #217 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #189 | #101 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #189 | #211 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #190 | #111 |
| Texas | 172 | #193 | #136 |
| Illinois | 52 | #195 | #141 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #205 | #132 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #206 | #185 |
| Arizona | 31 | #227 | #114 |
| California | 148 | #230 | #205 |
| Colorado | 28 | #235 | #93 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #265 | #55 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,118 | #137 | 84 | #1,885 |
| 2024 | 2,237 | #125 | 99 | #1,696 |
| 2023 | 2,338 | #118 | 117 | #1,516 |
| 2022 | 2,585 | #107 | 115 | #1,557 |
| 2021 | 2,718 | #97 | 132 | #1,392 |
| 2020 | 2,701 | #102 | 127 | #1,383 |
| 2019 | 2,779 | #100 | 104 | #1,602 |
| 2018 | 2,914 | #101 | 112 | #1,526 |
| 2017 | 2,863 | #104 | 126 | #1,400 |
| 2016 | 2,969 | #105 | 167 | #1,154 |
| 2015 | 2,694 | #120 | 174 | #1,108 |
| 2014 | 2,779 | #113 | 247 | #880 |
| 2013 | 2,901 | #109 | 211 | #947 |
| 2012 | 2,799 | #109 | 257 | #840 |
| 2011 | 2,877 | #102 | 308 | #735 |
| 2010 | 2,984 | #102 | 314 | #731 |
| 2009 | 2,829 | #118 | 279 | #799 |
| 2008 | 2,936 | #116 | 311 | #737 |
| 2007 | 2,627 | #130 | 268 | #802 |
| 2006 | 2,600 | #135 | 259 | #796 |
| 2005 | 2,521 | #128 | 259 | #767 |
| 2004 | 2,375 | #136 | 233 | #781 |
| 2003 | 2,018 | #167 | 205 | #846 |
| 2002 | 1,615 | #202 | 172 | #937 |
| 2001 | 1,330 | #240 | 154 | #995 |
| 2000 | 1,102 | #290 | 134 | #1,069 |
| 1999 | 906 | #333 | 120 | #1,112 |
| 1998 | 724 | #384 | 110 | #1,143 |
| 1997 | 624 | #420 | 99 | #1,204 |
| 1996 | 380 | #603 | 59 | #1,653 |
| 1995 | 309 | #690 | 33 | #2,390 |
| 1994 | 210 | #911 | 37 | #2,213 |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,057 | 22 | #3,128 |
| 1992 | 120 | #1,377 | 30 | #2,451 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,977 | 18 | #3,432 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,777 | 19 | #3,283 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,473 | 10 | #5,102 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,920 | 9 | #5,143 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,811 | 6 | #6,384 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,981 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,133 | 7 | #5,372 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,819 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,742 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,857 | — | — |
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).