Rylea
Rylea was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,253 among girls’ names; 1,103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Rylea 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rylea?
#8,253 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylea fell from #4,386 in 2015 to #8,253 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 8.1 per million.
73 babies in 2008, the peak
Rylea peaked in 2008, when 73 girls were given it, #2,575 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,253 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,221 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,857 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,952 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,368 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,857 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,010 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,584 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,675 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,917 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,386 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,339 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,449 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,257 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,343 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,583 | 39.9 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,726 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,575 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,086 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,302 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,660 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,417 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,026 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,955 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,686 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,115 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,056 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,899 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,577 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,314 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,412 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,238 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,342 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,745 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rylea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rylea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rylea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylea, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,103 Americans ever recorded as Rylea. The median Rylea alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 951 people named Rylea (945 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,031 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 297 |
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 Rylea born?
The states with the most babies named Rylea are Texas, Missouri and Pennsylvania, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 11 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| West Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Rylea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 357,678 babies since 1880, Rylea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 9,145 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Rylea
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 Rylea and names like it
- Compare Rylea and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRylea peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylea since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rylea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rylea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.