Meaning not yet researched.
Ryleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 891 in 2025. Its best rank was #138 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #138 in 2019; #344 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Ryleigh in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#344 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #138.
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Ryleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 891 girls in 2025. Peak: #138 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 2,025 (2019).
In 2025, 891 US girls were named Ryleigh, making it the 344th most common girls’ name of the year, down 42 places from #302 in 2024. That is 149 fewer than the 1,040 girls named Ryleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #138, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,025. For comparison, it was #198 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryleigh in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 35,576 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 18,072 babies named Ryleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,877 US girls were named Ryleigh; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 2,025. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,804 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ryleigh ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #63 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rileigh (3,882 babies since 1880) and Rylei (1,381 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ryliegh, Ryeleigh and Reileigh are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ryliegh (340), Ryeleigh (124), Reileigh (26), Reyleigh (13), Rieleigh (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 Ryleigh 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 30 | #63 | #44 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #134 | #72 |
| Alabama | 31 | #145 | #72 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #155 | #58 |
| Tennessee | 43 | #179 | #105 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #191 | #90 |
| South Carolina | 24 | #208 | #63 |
| Georgia | 51 | #210 | #124 |
| Virginia | 39 | #214 | #117 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #215 | #223 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #220 | #133 |
| Michigan | 41 | #221 | #157 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #266 | #81 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #270 | #214 |
| Florida | 63 | #298 | #208 |
| Maryland | 18 | #300 | #113 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #317 | #330 |
| Indiana | 22 | #329 | #190 |
| Ohio | 33 | #344 | #246 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #366 | #138 |
| Missouri | 17 | #372 | #152 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #373 | #201 |
| Texas | 83 | #404 | #222 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #444 | #264 |
| New York | 38 | #459 | #290 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #466 | #236 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #511 | #286 |
| Kansas | 6 | #566 | #192 |
| Colorado | 9 | #625 | #306 |
| Washington | 10 | #671 | #486 |
| Illinois | 13 | #740 | #341 |
| California | 33 | #888 | #607 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,017 | #407 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 891 | #344 | 8 | #9,545 |
| 2024 | 1,040 | #302 | 14 | #6,414 |
| 2023 | 1,186 | #263 | 18 | #5,419 |
| 2022 | 1,544 | #191 | 9 | #8,856 |
| 2021 | 1,755 | #164 | 11 | #7,482 |
| 2020 | 1,761 | #159 | 15 | #5,921 |
| 2019 | 2,025 | #138 | 16 | #5,754 |
| 2018 | 1,927 | #145 | 10 | #8,044 |
| 2017 | 1,858 | #161 | 20 | #4,902 |
| 2016 | 1,890 | #170 | 10 | #8,052 |
| 2015 | 1,661 | #198 | 21 | #4,674 |
| 2014 | 1,757 | #187 | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2013 | 1,726 | #187 | 27 | #3,841 |
| 2012 | 1,713 | #183 | 31 | #3,515 |
| 2011 | 1,647 | #193 | 28 | #3,772 |
| 2010 | 1,677 | #186 | 15 | #5,981 |
| 2009 | 1,384 | #242 | 17 | #5,506 |
| 2008 | 1,289 | #265 | 27 | #3,903 |
| 2007 | 1,126 | #302 | 18 | #5,171 |
| 2006 | 1,007 | #328 | 15 | #5,730 |
| 2005 | 899 | #351 | 12 | #6,548 |
| 2004 | 743 | #411 | 22 | #4,107 |
| 2003 | 615 | #479 | 11 | #6,636 |
| 2002 | 560 | #495 | 15 | #5,092 |
| 2001 | 369 | #678 | 12 | #5,948 |
| 2000 | 269 | #834 | 6 | #10,098 |
| 1999 | 217 | #957 | 5 | #11,281 |
| 1998 | 166 | #1,144 | 5 | #10,986 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,210 | 6 | #9,046 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,070 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,590 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,580 | — | — |
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).