Rylie
Rylie was given to 644 girls in 2025, #478 among girls’ names; 24,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,300 Americans named Rylie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rylie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rylie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rylie is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern spelling of Riley, Reilly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rylie?
#478 among girls’ names, 2025
Rylie fell from #388 in 2015 to #478 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.47 to 0.40 per 1,000.
1,114 babies in 2008, the peak
Rylie peaked in 2008, when 1,114 babies were given it (1,063 girls, #318 among girls’ names). The 665 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 644 | #478 | 0.40 |
| 2024 | 639 | #483 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 547 | #553 | 0.34 |
| 2022 | 701 | #447 | 0.43 |
| 2021 | 802 | #391 | 0.49 |
| 2020 | 875 | #353 | 0.54 |
| 2019 | 929 | #341 | 0.55 |
| 2018 | 969 | #335 | 0.57 |
| 2017 | 884 | #357 | 0.51 |
| 2016 | 1,006 | #325 | 0.57 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 847 | #388 | 0.47 |
| 2014 | 839 | #389 | 0.47 |
| 2013 | 844 | #372 | 0.48 |
| 2012 | 855 | #367 | 0.49 |
| 2011 | 902 | #359 | 0.51 |
| 2010 | 996 | #320 | 0.56 |
| 2009 | 970 | #340 | 0.53 |
| 2008 | 1,063 | #318 | 0.56 |
| 2007 | 969 | #342 | 0.50 |
| 2006 | 1,027 | #319 | 0.54 |
| 2005 | 941 | #338 | 0.51 |
| 2004 | 995 | #318 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 810 | #375 | 0.44 |
| 2002 | 660 | #441 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 500 | #535 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 397 | #632 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 404 | #602 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 352 | #656 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 246 | #841 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 174 | #1,067 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,287 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 120 | #1,375 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,873 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,093 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,518 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,194 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,633 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,234 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,956 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rylie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 24,485 Americans recorded as Rylie, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 644 girls and 21 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rylie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rylie, and how old are they?
24,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 24,485 Americans ever recorded as Rylie. The median Rylie alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 18,814 people named Rylie (17,751 women and girls, 1,063 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,800 |
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 Rylie born?
The states with the most babies named Rylie are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 81 | #421 | 0.9× |
| California | 48 | #659 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 28 | #630 | 0.7× |
| New York | 28 | #606 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 26 | #442 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #469 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 23 | #390 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 21 | #353 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 21 | #387 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #554 | 1.0× |
Where Rylie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rylie is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1983 it was given 1.6 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 Rylie 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 109,667 babies since 1880, Rylie is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 665 of their 3,133 babies (21%), again the second 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 Rylie
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 Rylie and names like it
- Compare Rylie and RyleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRylie peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rylie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rylie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rylie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rylie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.