Meaning not yet researched.
Ryley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,223 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,223 in 2003; #3,823 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Ryley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,823 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,223.
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Ryley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,223 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 186 (2007).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Ryley, making it the 3,823rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 373 places from #4,196 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 35 girls named Ryley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,223, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 186, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Ryley, making it the 3,930th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,282 places from #5,212 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 19 boys named Ryley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #906, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 186, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,690 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryley in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 7,197 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,179 babies named Ryley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 645 US girls were named Ryley; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 103. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rylee (74,557 babies since 1880), Riley (246,985 babies since 1880), Rylie (24,485 babies since 1880) and Rilee (3,742 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 Ryley 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 | 39 | #3,823 | 28 | #3,930 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,196 | 19 | #5,212 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,971 | 39 | #3,167 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,924 | 44 | #2,908 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,670 | 38 | #3,167 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,654 | 45 | #2,748 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,931 | 42 | #2,931 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,383 | 46 | #2,701 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,565 | 52 | #2,481 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,050 | 73 | #1,987 |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,254 | 93 | #1,690 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,090 | 110 | #1,482 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,017 | 98 | #1,586 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,773 | 143 | #1,242 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,720 | 156 | #1,154 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,494 | 161 | #1,155 |
| 2009 | 162 | #1,443 | 173 | #1,077 |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,385 | 156 | #1,162 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,315 | 186 | #1,023 |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,551 | 156 | #1,119 |
| 2005 | 176 | #1,276 | 160 | #1,044 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,301 | 164 | #1,010 |
| 2003 | 174 | #1,223 | 145 | #1,071 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,451 | 160 | #987 |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,474 | 171 | #917 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,773 | 172 | #906 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,419 | 136 | #1,024 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,759 | 122 | #1,074 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,019 | 130 | #995 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,445 | 124 | #1,009 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,144 | 91 | #1,218 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,084 | 73 | #1,368 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,660 | 59 | #1,551 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,577 | 50 | #1,725 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,881 | 59 | #1,498 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,565 | 54 | #1,557 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,875 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,430 | 22 | #2,669 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,320 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,327 | 13 | #3,616 |
| 1985 | — | — | 20 | #2,581 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,748 | 7 | #5,476 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,838 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,256 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,082 |
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).