Rilee
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 88.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 174 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,324since 1985
Rilee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #4,114 | 35 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #2,186 | 85 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #1,913 | 104 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 82 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #1,684 | 127 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #1,711 | 123 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #1,661 | 128 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #1,634 | 131 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #1,469 | 154 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #1,619 | 133 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #1,348 | 174 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #1,351 | 180 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #1,459 | 160 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #1,428 | 158 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #1,374 | 157 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #1,480 | 136 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #1,654 | 111 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #1,998 | 83 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
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| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rilee! It came in at #7,563, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Rilee is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#465 · 1 in 2,333
- Iowa#467 · 1 in 2,745
- Utah#494 · 1 in 2,477
- Michigan#1,186 · 1 in 9,984
- Texas#1,799 · 1 in 17,024
Best ever in a state: #251 in Idaho, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #465 | 5 | 1 in 2,333 |
| Iowa | #467 | 5 | 1 in 2,745 |
| Utah | #494 | 7 | 1 in 2,477 |
| Michigan | #1,186 | 5 | 1 in 9,984 |
| Texas | #1,799 | 9 | 1 in 17,024 |
| California | #2,393 | 8 | 1 in 27,784 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rilee
- 1,803 spots since 2024 (#4,114 → #5,917)
- 3,782 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #5,917)
- 4,206 spots since 2015 (#1,711 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2010 at #1,348 (174 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,216 girls born in 2010 were named Rilee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Rilee (1,361) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 33 | #7,353 (1987) | #7,869 |
| 1990s | 355 | #2,182 (1999) | #4,132 |
| 2000s | 1,361 | #1,351 (2008) | #1,566 |
| 2010s | 1,245 | #1,348 (2010) | #1,744 |
| 2020s | 330 | #2,135 (2020) | #3,435 |
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.
Rilee in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 20,232 of them was named Rilee, which outranked 89.2% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,922Shekinah90
- #1,922Susannah90
- #1,922Whitley90
- #1,941Rilee89
- #1,941Anahy89
- #1,941Anamaria89
- #1,941Anyah89
- #1,957Alanah88
- #1,957Anyssa88
- #1,957Brynna88
Tied with 15 names at #1,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 138,777 of them was named Rilee, which outranked 58.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,890Zarian15
- #4,890Zayquan15
- #4,890Zyler15
- #5,142Rilee14
- #5,142Aaditya14
- #5,142Adreyan14
- #5,142Ahman14
- #5,390Aaric13
- #5,390Abdulahi13
- #5,390Abhi13
Tied with 247 names at #5,142; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.