Rylei
Rylei is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,531 among girls’ names and #13,515 among boys’, #7,085 among all names counting both); 1,381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Rylei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rylei?
#4,531 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylei fell from #2,520 in 2015 to #4,531 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 19.3 per million.
87 babies in 2018, the peak
Rylei peaked in 2018, when 87 babies were given it (82 girls, #2,253 among girls’ names). The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,531 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,218 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,376 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,207 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,438 | 45.1 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,592 | 40.8 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,500 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,253 | 48.2 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,898 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,360 | 45.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,520 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,730 | 35.8 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,866 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,859 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,634 | 38.7 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,297 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,344 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,923 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,522 | 24.4 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,908 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,015 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,919 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,751 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,850 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,903 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,559 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,335 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,127 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rylei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,381 Americans recorded as Rylei, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylei, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,381 Americans ever recorded as Rylei. The median Rylei alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Rylei (805 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,060 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 528 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 843 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 355,921 babies since 1880, Rylei is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 9,229 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Rylei
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 Rylei and names like it
- Compare Rylei and RileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRylei peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylei since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Rylei.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rylei alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.