Rilee
Rilee is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,069 among girls’ names and #13,475 among boys’, #9,017 among all names counting both); 3,742 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Rilee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rilee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rilee?
#6,069 among girls’ names, 2025
Rilee fell from #1,716 in 2015 to #6,069 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.9 to 12.4 per million.
204 babies in 2008, the peak
Rilee peaked in 2008, when 204 babies were given it (180 girls, #1,353 among girls’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,069 | 5 | #13,475 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,192 | 5 | #13,819 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,928 | 7 | #10,571 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,405 | 7 | #10,614 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,208 | 8 | #9,509 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,149 | 8 | #9,376 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,916 | 8 | #9,564 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,143 | 9 | #8,680 |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,279 | 7 | #10,538 |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,688 | 17 | #5,503 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,716 | 16 | #5,686 |
| 2014 | 128 | #1,664 | 21 | #4,665 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,641 | 19 | #4,933 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,475 | 27 | #3,862 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,630 | 27 | #3,870 |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,351 | 12 | #7,001 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,476 | 30 | #3,615 |
| 2008 | 180 | #1,353 | 24 | #4,232 |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,467 | 30 | #3,573 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,434 | 22 | #4,334 |
| 2005 | 157 | #1,376 | 17 | #4,983 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,483 | 18 | #4,744 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,517 | 17 | #4,768 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,667 | 13 | #5,652 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,951 | 14 | #5,338 |
| 2000 | 83 | #2,007 | 8 | #8,041 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,194 | 8 | #7,721 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,523 | 6 | #9,387 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,217 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,833 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,062 | 8 | #6,847 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,868 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,870 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,807 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,885 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,352 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,571 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,839 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,312 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,126 | 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 Rilee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,742 Americans recorded as Rilee, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rilee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rilee, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,742 Americans ever recorded as Rilee. The median Rilee alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,250 people named Rilee (2,874 women and girls, 376 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,367 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 205 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
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 Rilee born?
The states with the most babies named Rilee are Texas, California and Ohio, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 218 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 212 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 141 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 98 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 75 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 73 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 72 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 66 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Rilee 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 Rilee?
Rilee is a less common spelling of Riley: SSA has recorded 3,742 Rilee and 246,985 Riley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 357,781 babies since 1880, Rilee is the fourth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 9,151 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Rilee
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 Rilee and names like it
- Compare Rilee and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRilee peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rilee since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rilee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rilee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.