Ryleigh — #302 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ryleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,242 babies named Ryleigh between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ryleigh currently holds the #302 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 2,024 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ryleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17,879 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ryleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ryleigh in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ryleigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34,242 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.