Rye
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 86.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 76 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,070since 1971
Rye 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 | #8,860 | 11 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | — | #2,418 | 57 | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,325 | 61 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,922 | 76 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,772 | 43 |
| 2011 | — | #3,605 | 29 | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | — | #4,160 | 24 | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | — | #4,223 | 22 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,326 | 20 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,890 | 15 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
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| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rye! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rye is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#562 · 1 in 3,835
- New York#1,540 · 1 in 14,608
- California#1,712 · 1 in 21,068
- Texas#1,962 · 1 in 24,179
Best ever in a state: #562 in Massachusetts, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #562 | 7 | 1 in 3,835 |
| New York | #1,540 | 6 | 1 in 14,608 |
| California | #1,712 | 9 | 1 in 21,068 |
| Texas | #1,962 | 7 | 1 in 24,179 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Rye
- 98 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,516)
- 594 spots since 2020 (#1,922 → #2,516)
- 403 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #2,516)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2020 at #1,922 (76 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,712 boys born in 2020 were named Rye (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Rye (407) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 47 | #3,569 (1979) | #4,636 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,940 (1980) | #5,498 |
| 1990s | 56 | #5,382 (1990) | #6,616 |
| 2000s | 161 | #4,160 (2009) | #5,357 |
| 2010s | 407 | #2,167 (2018) | #3,033 |
| 2020s | 357 | #1,922 (2020) | #2,344 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rye in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 161,655 of them was named Rye, which outranked 45.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,953Zohemy11
- #8,953Zorie11
- #8,953Zuzu11
- #9,546Rye10
- #9,546Aashna10
- #9,546Abree10
- #9,546Abria10
- #10,250Aadriti9
- #10,250Aaima9
- #10,250Aalivia9
Tied with 703 names at #9,546; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 22,712 of them was named Rye, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,911Raziel77
- #1,911Triton77
- #1,911Yazan77
- #1,922Rye76
- #1,922Abdirahman76
- #1,922Asad76
- #1,922Chaz76
- #1,937Adnan75
- #1,937Armon75
- #1,937Atharva75
Tied with 14 names at #1,922; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.