Rileigh
Rileigh was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,200 among girls’ names; 3,882 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,850 Americans named Rileigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rileigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rileigh?
#5,200 among girls’ names, 2025
Rileigh fell from #1,717 in 2015 to #5,200 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.9 to 15.6 per million.
226 babies in 2008, the peak
Rileigh peaked in 2008, when 226 babies were given it (220 girls, #1,166 among girls’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,200 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,543 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,535 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,355 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,701 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,816 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,675 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,322 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,253 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,690 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 186 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,429 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 199 | #1,209 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,176 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 221 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 220 | #1,166 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,262 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 180 | #1,306 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,180 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 207 | #1,105 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 199 | #1,109 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 170 | #1,201 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,375 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,546 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,643 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,730 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,150 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,644 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,909 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,844 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rileigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,882 Americans recorded as Rileigh, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 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 Rileigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rileigh, and how old are they?
3,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,882 Americans ever recorded as Rileigh. The median Rileigh alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,260 people named Rileigh (3,173 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,624 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 127 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Rileigh born?
The states with the most babies named Rileigh are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 293 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 188 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 172 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 159 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 144 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 126 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 123 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 92 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 89 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Rileigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rileigh is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1991 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Rileigh 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 Rileigh?
Rileigh is a less common spelling of Ryleigh: SSA has recorded 3,882 Rileigh and 35,576 Ryleigh since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 40,246 babies since 1880, Rileigh is the second most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 957 babies (2.6%), the third 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 Rileigh
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 Rileigh and names like it
- Compare Rileigh and RyleighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRileigh peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rileigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rileigh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rileigh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.