Rielly
Rielly was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 459 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rielly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rielly?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,185, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1998, the peak
Rielly peaked in 1998, when 36 babies were given it (22 girls, #4,909 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #13,185 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,510 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,558 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,036 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,115 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,652 | 10 | #8,005 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,308 | 13 | #6,728 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,025 | 9 | #8,856 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,654 | 10 | #8,042 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,161 | 17 | #5,256 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 12 | #9,330 | 10 | #7,530 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,024 | 8 | #8,744 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,819 | 14 | #5,480 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,735 | 19 | #4,290 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,016 | 6 | #10,271 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,414 | 16 | #4,738 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,141 | 11 | #5,958 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,909 | 14 | #4,817 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,101 | 9 | #6,501 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,655 | 6 | #8,778 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,199 | 8 | #6,845 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,032 | 10 | #5,787 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,905 |
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 Rielly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 459 Americans recorded as Rielly, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rielly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rielly, and how old are they?
An estimated 452 Americans named Rielly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 517 people named Rielly (281 women and girls, 236 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 448 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 251,905 babies since 1880, Rielly is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,170 babies recorded by SSA was a Rielly (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rielly
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 Rielly and names like it
- Compare Rielly and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRielly peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Rielly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rielly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.