Ryley
Ryley is given to both girls and boys: 39 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,822 among girls’ names and #3,929 among boys’, #4,612 among all names counting both); 7,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Ryley every year since 2016.
An estimated 7,090 Americans named Ryley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ryley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ryley is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Riley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ryley?
#3,929 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryley fell from #1,690 in 2015 to #3,929 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.5 to 16.4 per million.
372 babies in 2007, the peak
Ryley peaked in 2007, when 372 babies were given it (186 boys, #1,023 among boys’ names). The 67 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,822 | 28 | #3,929 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,195 | 19 | #5,208 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,969 | 39 | #3,165 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,924 | 44 | #2,906 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,670 | 38 | #3,166 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,654 | 45 | #2,747 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,931 | 42 | #2,929 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,383 | 46 | #2,700 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,565 | 52 | #2,480 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,050 | 73 | #1,987 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,254 | 93 | #1,690 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,090 | 110 | #1,482 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,017 | 98 | #1,586 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,773 | 143 | #1,242 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,720 | 156 | #1,154 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,494 | 161 | #1,155 |
| 2009 | 162 | #1,443 | 173 | #1,077 |
| 2008 | 173 | #1,385 | 156 | #1,162 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,315 | 186 | #1,023 |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,551 | 156 | #1,119 |
| 2005 | 176 | #1,276 | 160 | #1,043 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,300 | 164 | #1,009 |
| 2003 | 174 | #1,222 | 145 | #1,070 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,450 | 160 | #986 |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,473 | 171 | #916 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,769 | 172 | #904 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,417 | 136 | #1,022 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,757 | 122 | #1,071 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,016 | 130 | #993 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,442 | 124 | #1,007 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,139 | 91 | #1,213 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,079 | 73 | #1,364 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,655 | 59 | #1,546 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,571 | 50 | #1,720 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,875 | 59 | #1,492 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,559 | 54 | #1,552 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 22 | #2,869 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,423 | 22 | #2,664 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 25 | #2,316 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,322 | 13 | #3,612 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 20 | #2,579 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,743 | 7 | #5,472 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 8 | #4,836 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #6,254 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #7,079 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ryley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,197 Americans recorded as Ryley, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryley, and how old are they?
7,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,197 Americans ever recorded as Ryley. The median Ryley alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 6,431 people named Ryley (3,026 women and girls, 3,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
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 Ryley born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,797 | 0.6× |
Where Ryley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ryley is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1981 it was given 1.1 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 boys’ 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 Ryley 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,443 babies since 1880, Ryley is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 306 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
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 Ryley
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 Ryley and names like it
- Compare Ryley and RyloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRyley peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ryley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ryley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ryley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.