Rylee
#137 for girls in 2025, 2,118 births · #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
Given to girls 92.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 2,718 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 2 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 69,010since 1980
Rylee 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 | #137 | 2,118 | #1,867 | 84 |
| 2024 | #125 | 2,237 | #1,685 | 99 |
| 2023 | #118 | 2,338 | #1,508 | 117 |
| 2022 | #107 | 2,585 | #1,551 | 115 |
| 2021 | #97 | 2,718 | #1,383 | 132 |
| 2020 | #102 | 2,701 | #1,378 | 127 |
| 2019 | #100 | 2,779 | #1,592 | 104 |
| 2018 | #101 | 2,914 | #1,521 | 112 |
| 2017 | #104 | 2,863 | #1,393 | 126 |
| 2016 | #105 | 2,969 | #1,149 | 167 |
| 2015 | #120 | 2,694 | #1,105 | 174 |
| 2014 | #113 | 2,779 | #877 | 247 |
| 2013 | #109 | 2,901 | #943 | 211 |
| 2012 | #109 | 2,799 | #840 | 257 |
| 2011 | #102 | 2,877 | #735 | 308 |
| 2010 | #102 | 2,984 | #729 | 314 |
| 2009 | #118 | 2,829 | #798 | 279 |
| 2008 | #116 | 2,936 | #736 | 311 |
| 2007 | #130 | 2,627 | #801 | 268 |
| 2006 | #135 | 2,600 | #794 | 259 |
| 2005 | #128 | 2,521 | #764 | 259 |
| 2004 | #136 | 2,375 | #778 | 233 |
| 2003 | #167 | 2,018 | #845 | 205 |
| 2002 | #201 | 1,615 | #930 | 172 |
| 2001 | #240 | 1,330 | #992 | 154 |
| 2000 | #290 | 1,102 | #1,066 | 134 |
| 1999 | #333 | 906 | #1,106 | 120 |
| 1998 | #384 | 724 | #1,133 | 110 |
| 1997 | #420 | 624 | #1,198 | 99 |
| 1996 | #602 | 380 | #1,638 | 59 |
| 1995 | #690 | 309 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #908 | 210 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #1,054 | 174 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #1,377 | 120 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #1,958 | 71 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #1,769 | 82 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #2,442 | 47 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rylee! It came in at #8,178, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Rylee is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Delaware#48 · 1 in 183
- West Virginia#59 · 1 in 242
- Nebraska#59 · 1 in 290
- Kentucky#63 · 1 in 313
- Maine#64 · 1 in 230
Best ever in a state: #15 in South Dakota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #48 | 12 | 1 in 183 |
| Nebraska | #59 | 24 | 1 in 290 |
| West Virginia | #59 | 21 | 1 in 242 |
| Kentucky | #63 | 54 | 1 in 313 |
| Maine | #64 | 13 | 1 in 230 |
| Montana | #68 | 12 | 1 in 220 |
| South Dakota | #69 | 12 | 1 in 232 |
| Missouri | #70 | 65 | 1 in 361 |
| New Mexico | #70 | 17 | 1 in 277 |
| Georgia | #76 | 105 | 1 in 432 |
| Kansas | #76 | 35 | 1 in 323 |
| Tennessee | #77 | 83 | 1 in 380 |
| Ohio | #78 | 115 | 1 in 408 |
| Wyoming | #78 | 5 | 1 in 174 |
| Louisiana | #81 | 44 | 1 in 399 |
| Rhode Island | #81 | 9 | 1 in 266 |
| Minnesota | #86 | 52 | 1 in 403 |
| South Carolina | #86 | 45 | 1 in 398 |
| New Hampshire | #88 | 13 | 1 in 286 |
| Michigan | #91 | 80 | 1 in 441 |
| Alabama | #92 | 46 | 1 in 404 |
| Iowa | #93 | 31 | 1 in 379 |
| Idaho | #94 | 18 | 1 in 361 |
| District of Columbia | #96 | 8 | 1 in 285 |
| Oklahoma | #102 | 34 | 1 in 426 |
| North Dakota | #104 | 8 | 1 in 310 |
| Indiana | #105 | 60 | 1 in 464 |
| Oregon | #105 | 29 | 1 in 425 |
| Nevada | #110 | 19 | 1 in 468 |
| Wisconsin | #114 | 41 | 1 in 498 |
| Arizona | #115 | 52 | 1 in 540 |
| Mississippi | #122 | 20 | 1 in 473 |
| Virginia | #122 | 60 | 1 in 554 |
| Florida | #124 | 135 | 1 in 630 |
| Pennsylvania | #124 | 82 | 1 in 569 |
| Arkansas | #126 | 22 | 1 in 473 |
| North Carolina | #128 | 76 | 1 in 585 |
| Maryland | #132 | 36 | 1 in 580 |
| Connecticut | #134 | 22 | 1 in 519 |
| Colorado | #142 | 35 | 1 in 618 |
| Texas | #143 | 217 | 1 in 747 |
| Washington | #143 | 45 | 1 in 628 |
| Utah | #157 | 28 | 1 in 578 |
| New Jersey | #171 | 46 | 1 in 773 |
| Hawaii | #175 | 5 | 1 in 449 |
| California | #176 | 188 | 1 in 877 |
| Illinois | #204 | 50 | 1 in 891 |
| New York | #206 | 79 | 1 in 984 |
| Massachusetts | #223 | 25 | 1 in 934 |
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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 Rylee
- 12 spots since 2024 (#125 → #137)
- 35 spots since 2020 (#102 → #137)
- 17 spots since 2015 (#120 → #137)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 1995 (#908 → #690)
- Biggest drop: 12 spots in 2025 (#125 → #137)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2021 at #97 (2,718 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 2 yrs · 2019–2021
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 584 girls born in 2018 were named Rylee (0.17%)
- Latest: 1 in 759 girls born in 2025 (0.13%)
- Its best rank, #97 in 2021, was only 1 in 604 (0.17%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.4% of all girls named Rylee (28,559) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 201 | #2,442 (1989) | #5,352 |
| 1990s | 3,600 | #333 (1999) | #950 |
| 2000s | 21,953 | #116 (2008) | #166 |
| 2010s | 28,559 | #100 (2019) | #107 |
| 2020s | 14,697 | #97 (2021) | #114 |
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.
Rylee in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 686 of them was named Rylee, which outranked 99.3% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,620 of them was named Rylee, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,501Ranger118
- #1,501Ripley118
- #1,501Xavi118
- #1,508Rylee117
- #1,508Antony117
- #1,508Cecil117
- #1,508Haziel117
- #1,518Arrow116
- #1,518Edson116
- #1,518Jamarion116
Tied with 9 names at #1,508; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.