Meaning not yet researched.
Rylei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,253 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,253 in 2018; #4,532 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Rylei in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,532 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,253.
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Rylei: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,253 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 82 (2018).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Rylei, making it the 4,532nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,314 places from #3,218 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 50 girls named Rylei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,253, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #2,520 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Rylei, making it the 13,519th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #9,695, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 8. For comparison, it was #11,831 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rylei in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 7 babies. In all, 1,381 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 710 babies named Rylei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 611 US girls were named Rylei; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 82. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 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), Ryleigh (35,576 babies since 1880) and Rylie (24,485 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 Rylei 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 | 31 | #4,532 | 5 | #13,519 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,376 | 5 | #13,791 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,253 | 5 | #13,725 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,360 | 6 | #11,866 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,520 | 6 | #11,831 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,732 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,867 | 7 | #10,513 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,635 | 6 | #11,991 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,298 | 7 | #10,547 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,345 | 6 | #12,189 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,924 | 8 | #9,695 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,019 | 5 | #12,985 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,923 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,756 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,908 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,567 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,342 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,134 | — | — |
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).