Ryley — #5307 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ryley

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,826 babies named Ryley between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ryley currently holds the #5307 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 186 babies received it in a single year. Ryley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,302 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ryley performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,643 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ryley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 304 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Ryley in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ryley 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 3,826 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.