Ryleigh
#343 for girls in 2025, 891 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 2,025 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 35,139since 1986
Ryleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Ryleigh has never cracked the top 100 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #343 | 891 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #302 | 1,040 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #263 | 1,186 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #191 | 1,544 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #164 | 1,755 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #159 | 1,761 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #138 | 2,025 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #145 | 1,927 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #161 | 1,858 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #170 | 1,890 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #198 | 1,661 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #187 | 1,757 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #187 | 1,726 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #183 | 1,713 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #193 | 1,647 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #185 | 1,677 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #242 | 1,384 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #265 | 1,289 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #302 | 1,126 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #328 | 1,007 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #351 | 899 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #411 | 743 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #478 | 615 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #495 | 560 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #677 | 369 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #832 | 269 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #953 | 217 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #1,141 | 166 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,206 | 149 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #1,767 | 84 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ryleigh! It came in at #9,545, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ryleigh is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#94 · 1 in 357
- Mississippi#100 · 1 in 420
- Arkansas#109 · 1 in 437
- Louisiana#110 · 1 in 504
- New Hampshire#120 · 1 in 438
Best ever in a state: #17 in Mississippi, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #94 | 19 | 1 in 357 |
| Mississippi | #100 | 28 | 1 in 420 |
| Arkansas | #109 | 27 | 1 in 437 |
| Louisiana | #110 | 41 | 1 in 504 |
| New Hampshire | #120 | 9 | 1 in 438 |
| Delaware | #124 | 7 | 1 in 392 |
| Michigan | #124 | 72 | 1 in 594 |
| Alabama | #126 | 35 | 1 in 572 |
| Ohio | #133 | 86 | 1 in 633 |
| South Carolina | #134 | 32 | 1 in 580 |
| Maryland | #136 | 42 | 1 in 589 |
| Virginia | #139 | 60 | 1 in 612 |
| Kentucky | #149 | 32 | 1 in 603 |
| Indiana | #150 | 48 | 1 in 660 |
| Tennessee | #156 | 42 | 1 in 727 |
| North Carolina | #160 | 60 | 1 in 774 |
| Oklahoma | #164 | 26 | 1 in 662 |
| Georgia | #167 | 65 | 1 in 780 |
| Pennsylvania | #188 | 60 | 1 in 911 |
| Maine | #193 | 6 | 1 in 658 |
| Missouri | #207 | 30 | 1 in 934 |
| Nebraska | #213 | 11 | 1 in 746 |
| Florida | #221 | 75 | 1 in 1,098 |
| Massachusetts | #247 | 24 | 1 in 1,094 |
| Iowa | #256 | 13 | 1 in 1,017 |
| Wisconsin | #267 | 21 | 1 in 1,167 |
| Kansas | #290 | 12 | 1 in 1,147 |
| Texas | #309 | 113 | 1 in 1,475 |
| Idaho | #319 | 6 | 1 in 1,129 |
| Colorado | #331 | 17 | 1 in 1,402 |
| Washington | #333 | 22 | 1 in 1,425 |
| Nevada | #358 | 8 | 1 in 1,433 |
| Illinois | #361 | 36 | 1 in 1,757 |
| Minnesota | #367 | 15 | 1 in 1,653 |
| Utah | #422 | 10 | 1 in 1,904 |
| Arizona | #423 | 18 | 1 in 1,862 |
| New York | #423 | 44 | 1 in 2,154 |
| New Mexico | #449 | 5 | 1 in 1,604 |
| New Jersey | #465 | 17 | 1 in 2,254 |
| Oregon | #519 | 7 | 1 in 2,234 |
| California | #616 | 62 | 1 in 3,521 |
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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 Ryleigh
- 41 spots since 2024 (#302 → #343)
- 184 spots since 2020 (#159 → #343)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#198 → #343)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1999 (#1,141 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 72 spots in 2023 (#191 → #263)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2019 at #138 (2,025 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 829 girls born in 2019 were named Ryleigh (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,804 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 50.9% of all girls named Ryleigh (17,881) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #9,545 (1986) | #9,613 |
| 1990s | 807 | #953 (1999) | #2,992 |
| 2000s | 8,261 | #242 (2009) | #438 |
| 2010s | 17,881 | #138 (2019) | #175 |
| 2020s | 8,177 | #159 (2020) | #237 |
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.
Ryleigh in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 1,327 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 98.8% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 116,681 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 63.3% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,102Zephan18
- #5,102Zevin18
- #5,102Zohaib18
- #5,334Ryleigh17
- #5,334Aadil17
- #5,334Abrar17
- #5,334Adhrit17
- #5,554Aadarsh16
- #5,554Abdel16
- #5,554Abid16
Tied with 219 names at #5,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.