Rye — #2425 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rye

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,017 babies named Rye between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rye currently holds the #2425 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 76 babies received it in a single year. Rye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 155 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rye performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 407 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rye shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 78 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Rye in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rye in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,017 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.