Rhylee
Rhylee was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,191 among girls’ names; 2,766 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,750 Americans named Rhylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhylee?
#2,191 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhylee fell from #1,727 in 2015 to #2,191 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.3 to 52.9 per million.
248 babies in 2019, the peak
Rhylee peaked in 2019, when 248 babies were given it (233 girls, #1,081 among girls’ names). The 90 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,191 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,029 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,241 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,706 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,341 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 233 | #1,081 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 196 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,887 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,679 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,727 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,630 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,638 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,055 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,882 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,203 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,574 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,321 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,406 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,798 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,503 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,048 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,014 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,487 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,447 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,048 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,766 Americans recorded as Rhylee, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 85 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhylee, and how old are they?
2,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,766 Americans ever recorded as Rhylee. The median Rhylee alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,708 people named Rhylee (1,510 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 892 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,840 |
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).
Where are babies named Rhylee born?
The states with the most babies named Rhylee are Texas, Georgia and Illinois, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rhylee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rhylee?
Rhylee is a less common spelling of Riley: SSA has recorded 2,766 Rhylee and 246,985 Riley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 356,225 babies since 1880, Rhylee is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 9,157 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Rhylee
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 Rhylee and names like it
- Compare Rhylee and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRhylee peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Rhylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.