Unisex name · since 2003
Rily
63 babies named Rily in U.S. Social Security records since 2003, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #32,363 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 63
- born since 2003
- 2000s
- peak decade
63 girls have been named Rily since 2003, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Rily has 63 recorded births among girls since 2003, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2003 to 2018.
- #32,363 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 63 born since 2003
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rily ranks #32,363 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 63 born since 2003, peaking in the 2000s.
- #32,363 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 63
- born since 2003
- 2000s
- peak decade
Rily's 63 recorded births place it above 55.19% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rily's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Rily splits its recorded history at 2009: 56% of all births land in the more recent half, 44% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2003 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2009 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Rily popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–2018
- Peak year (2009)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Rily popularity over time - boys
16 total births recorded since 1999 (Rily as boys' name)
Rily by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (35 births, 56% of the file).
2000s was Rily's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Rily births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
35 births
- 2010s
2010s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 35 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Rily's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (35 total births) through the 2010s (28) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Rily: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2009)
Similar record span (~15 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2003–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rily draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.