Ryleigh
Ryleigh was given to 891 girls in 2025, #344 among girls’ names; 35,576 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,300 Americans named Ryleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ryleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ryleigh is “a female given name.”
Variant of Riley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ryleigh?
#344 among girls’ names, 2025
Ryleigh fell from #198 in 2015 to #344 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.93 to 0.55 per 1,000.
2,041 babies in 2019, the peak
Ryleigh peaked in 2019, when 2,041 babies were given it (2,025 girls, #138 among girls’ names). The 899 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 891 | #344 | 0.55 |
| 2024 | 1,040 | #302 | 0.64 |
| 2023 | 1,186 | #263 | 0.74 |
| 2022 | 1,544 | #191 | 0.94 |
| 2021 | 1,755 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,761 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 2,025 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,927 | #145 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1,858 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 1,890 | #170 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,661 | #198 | 0.93 |
| 2014 | 1,757 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,726 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,713 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,647 | #193 | 0.94 |
| 2010 | 1,677 | #186 | 0.94 |
| 2009 | 1,384 | #242 | 0.75 |
| 2008 | 1,289 | #265 | 0.68 |
| 2007 | 1,126 | #302 | 0.59 |
| 2006 | 1,007 | #328 | 0.53 |
| 2005 | 899 | #351 | 0.49 |
| 2004 | 743 | #411 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 615 | #479 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 560 | #495 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 369 | #678 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 269 | #834 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 217 | #955 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 166 | #1,142 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,208 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,776 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,024 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,204 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,755 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,307 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,064 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,575 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ryleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 35,576 Americans recorded as Ryleigh, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 891 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryleigh, and how old are they?
35,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 35,576 Americans ever recorded as Ryleigh. The median Ryleigh alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 23,525 people named Ryleigh (23,231 women and girls, 294 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21,100 |
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 Ryleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Ryleigh are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 83 | #404 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 63 | #298 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 51 | #210 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 50 | #220 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 43 | #179 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #270 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 41 | #221 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 39 | #214 | 1.4× |
| New York | 38 | #459 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 33 | #344 | 1.3× |
Where Ryleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1986 it was given 2.3 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 Ryleigh 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 40,586 babies since 1880, Ryleigh is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 899 of their 957 babies (94%), again the 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 Ryleigh
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 Ryleigh and names like it
- Compare Ryleigh and RileighBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRyleigh peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryleigh since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ryleigh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryleigh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.