Reilly
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · #2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
Given to girls 54.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 360 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,528since 1978
Reilly over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 | #2,676 | 48 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #2,130 | 64 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 | #1,790 | 84 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | #1,536 | 104 |
| 2013 | #1,929 | 103 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #1,202 | 149 |
| 2011 | #1,564 | 140 | #1,219 | 143 |
| 2010 | #1,574 | 139 | #1,137 | 163 |
| 2009 | #1,432 | 163 | #1,078 | 172 |
| 2008 | #1,286 | 193 | #954 | 210 |
| 2007 | #1,244 | 199 | #909 | 218 |
| 2006 | #1,314 | 178 | #1,043 | 174 |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | #976 | 178 |
| 2004 | #903 | 268 | #988 | 168 |
| 2003 | #869 | 276 | #873 | 196 |
| 2002 | #775 | 305 | #823 | 204 |
| 2001 | #737 | 325 | #817 | 202 |
| 2000 | #795 | 289 | #824 | 194 |
| 1999 | #696 | 324 | #867 | 174 |
| 1998 | #623 | 379 | #906 | 159 |
| 1997 | #622 | 360 | #799 | 183 |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | #914 | 143 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | #1,187 | 95 |
| 1994 | #1,827 | 78 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 | #1,621 | 54 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #2,374 | 52 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1978
The first year at least five girls were named Reilly! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 128 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #2,822)
- 606 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,822)
- 699 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 449 spots in 1997 (#1,071 → #622)
- Biggest drop: 108 spots in 2005 (#903 → #1,011)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1997 at #622 (360 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1997–2004
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,662
- Highest: 1 in 4,662 girls born in 1998 were named Reilly (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #622 in 1997, was only 1 in 4,835 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 44.1% of all girls named Reilly (2,437) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,562 |
| 1980s | 108 | #4,358 (1989) | #7,143 |
| 1990s | 1,596 | #622 (1997) | #1,692 |
| 2000s | 2,437 | #737 (2001) | #1,037 |
| 2010s | 996 | #1,564 (2011) | #2,029 |
| 2020s | 385 | #2,216 (2020) | #2,709 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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