Rileigh
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #10,770
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 207 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,832since 1991
Rileigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Rileigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #5,099 | 25 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,473 | 31 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,302 | 79 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 128 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,711 | 123 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,684 | 125 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,273 | 186 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,425 | 160 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #1,204 | 199 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #1,165 | 208 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,146 | 221 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #1,165 | 220 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #1,299 | 180 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,173 | 196 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,102 | 207 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #1,105 | 199 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,197 | 170 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,368 | 139 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,542 | 116 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,636 | 102 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,721 | 92 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rileigh! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rileigh is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#466 · 1 in 2,075
- Louisiana#501 · 1 in 2,170
- Georgia#604 · 1 in 2,806
- Ohio#701 · 1 in 3,969
- South Carolina#732 · 1 in 3,493
Best ever in a state: #275 in West Virginia, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #466 | 9 | 1 in 2,075 |
| Louisiana | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,170 |
| Georgia | #604 | 17 | 1 in 2,806 |
| Ohio | #701 | 13 | 1 in 3,969 |
| South Carolina | #732 | 5 | 1 in 3,493 |
| North Carolina | #752 | 11 | 1 in 4,014 |
| Tennessee | #777 | 7 | 1 in 4,230 |
| Pennsylvania | #793 | 11 | 1 in 4,801 |
| Indiana | #1,009 | 5 | 1 in 6,070 |
| Florida | #1,139 | 11 | 1 in 7,229 |
| New York | #1,360 | 10 | 1 in 9,277 |
| Texas | #1,537 | 14 | 1 in 11,135 |
| California | #3,451 | 5 | 1 in 41,525 |
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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 Rileigh
- 626 spots since 2024 (#4,473 → #5,099)
- 2,320 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #5,099)
- 3,388 spots since 2015 (#1,711 → #5,099)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2004 at #1,102 (207 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,313 girls born in 2009 were named Rileigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,102 in 2004, was only 1 in 8,871 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.1% of all girls named Rileigh (1,844) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 388 | #1,636 (1999) | #4,642 |
| 2000s | 1,844 | #1,102 (2004) | #1,235 |
| 2010s | 1,357 | #1,165 (2010) | #1,732 |
| 2020s | 243 | #2,674 (2021) | #3,962 |
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.
Rileigh in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 8,840 of them was named Rileigh, which outranked 93.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,196Kinlee201
- #1,196Leela201
- #1,203Abrianna200
- #1,204Rileigh199
- #1,204Donna199
- #1,204Estelle199
- #1,204Evelin199
- #1,210Abigayle198
- #1,210Anjali198
- #1,210Jenesis198
Tied with 5 names at #1,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 379,850 of them was named Rileigh, which outranked 14.4% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,073 names at #12,287; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.