Rylee
Rylee was given to 2,118 girls in 2025, #137 among girls’ names; 74,557 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 73,900 Americans named Rylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rylee is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Riley.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname, also a modern spelling of Riley.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rylee?
#137 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylee fell from #120 in 2015 to #137 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.5 to 1.3 per 1,000.
3,298 babies in 2010, the peak
Rylee peaked in 2010, when 3,298 babies were given it (2,984 girls, #102 among girls’ names). The 2,202 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,118 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,237 | #125 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 2,338 | #118 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,585 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 2,718 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 2,701 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 2,779 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 2,914 | #101 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 2,863 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 2,969 | #105 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,694 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,779 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 2,901 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 2012 | 2,799 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 2,877 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 2,984 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 2009 | 2,829 | #118 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 2,936 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 2007 | 2,627 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 2006 | 2,600 | #135 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 2,521 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 2,375 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 2,018 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 1,615 | #202 | 0.90 |
| 2001 | 1,330 | #240 | 0.74 |
| 2000 | 1,102 | #290 | 0.61 |
| 1999 | 906 | #333 | 0.51 |
| 1998 | 724 | #384 | 0.41 |
| 1997 | 624 | #420 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 380 | #603 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 309 | #690 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 210 | #910 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,055 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 120 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,971 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,468 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,080 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,809 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,131 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,817 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,856 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 74,557 Americans recorded as Rylee, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 2,118 girls and 84 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylee, and how old are they?
73,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 74,557 Americans ever recorded as Rylee. The median Rylee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 53,194 people named Rylee (48,957 women and girls, 4,237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59,435 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36,200 |
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 Rylee born?
The states with the most babies named Rylee are Texas, California and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 183 | #193 | 0.8× |
| California | 148 | #230 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 140 | #137 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 118 | #83 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 90 | #112 | 0.9× |
| New York | 90 | #182 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 83 | #101 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 81 | #85 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 74 | #135 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #154 | 1.1× |
Where Rylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1980 it was given 1.7 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 Rylee 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 355,921 babies since 1880, Rylee is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,202 of their 9,229 babies (24%), again the second 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 Rylee
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 Rylee and names like it
- Compare Rylee and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylee peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Rylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.