Rhiley
Rhiley was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,275 among girls’ names; 1,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Rhiley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhiley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhiley?
#6,275 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhiley fell from #3,120 in 2015 to #6,275 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 11.8 per million.
81 babies in 2010, the peak
Rhiley peaked in 2010, when 81 babies were given it (58 girls, #2,968 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,275 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,573 | 8 | #9,674 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,904 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,565 | 5 | #13,894 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,060 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,452 | 6 | #11,703 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,212 | 5 | #13,709 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,280 | 10 | #8,034 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,538 | 11 | #7,442 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,857 | 7 | #10,494 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,120 | 10 | #7,912 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,745 | 12 | #6,965 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,896 | 14 | #6,172 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,969 | 17 | #5,435 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,899 | 21 | #4,622 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,968 | 23 | #4,339 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,448 | 29 | #3,700 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,950 | 16 | #5,708 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,771 | 12 | #6,985 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,512 | 22 | #4,333 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,417 | 13 | #6,141 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,791 | 9 | #8,030 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,505 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,708 | 8 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,930 | 7 | #9,016 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,016 | 9 | #7,270 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,610 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,016 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,571 | 5 | #10,471 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,998 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rhiley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,206 Americans recorded as Rhiley, 76% are girls and 24% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhiley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhiley, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,206 Americans ever recorded as Rhiley. The median Rhiley alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 887 people named Rhiley (647 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 652 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 537 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Rhiley?
Rhiley is a less common spelling of Riley: SSA has recorded 1,206 Rhiley and 246,985 Riley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 255,493 babies since 1880, Rhiley is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 6,255 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rhiley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rhiley and names like it
- Compare Rhiley and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRhiley peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhiley since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Rhiley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rhiley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.