Ryle
Ryle was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,710 among boys’ names; 515 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryle?
#2,710 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryle rose from #13,661 in 2015 to #2,710 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 28.1 per million.
48 babies in 2025, the peak
Ryle peaked in 2025, when 48 boys were given it, #2,710 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 26 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,710 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,169 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,861 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,983 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,507 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,515 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,039 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,261 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,736 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,661 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,933 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,175 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,669 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,401 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,539 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,697 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,332 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,592 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,028 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,936 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,882 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,575 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,405 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,838 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,280 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,533 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,416 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,885 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,672 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,260 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,399 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,719 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,274 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,357 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,574 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,377 | 3.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,316 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 515 Americans recorded as Ryle, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Ryle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryle, and how old are they?
An estimated 507 Americans named Ryle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 656 people named Ryle (228 women and girls, 428 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ryle rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,524 babies since 1880, Ryle is the third most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 313 babies (15%), again the third most given.
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 Ryle
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 Ryle and names like it
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