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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#29 · 1 in 182
- Alabama#44 · 1 in 253
- West Virginia#52 · 1 in 234
- Arkansas#53 · 1 in 262
- Louisiana#59 · 1 in 321
Best ever in a state: #17 in Mississippi, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #29 | 59 | 1 in 182 |
| Alabama | #44 | 74 | 1 in 253 |
| West Virginia | #52 | 24 | 1 in 234 |
| Arkansas | #53 | 42 | 1 in 262 |
| Louisiana | #59 | 61 | 1 in 321 |
| Georgia | #61 | 130 | 1 in 356 |
| Wyoming | #64 | 6 | 1 in 161 |
| Kentucky | #68 | 54 | 1 in 329 |
| South Carolina | #70 | 52 | 1 in 340 |
| Delaware | #72 | 11 | 1 in 226 |
| Vermont | #78 | 6 | 1 in 183 |
| Tennessee | #80 | 77 | 1 in 405 |
| Maine | #82 | 13 | 1 in 262 |
| New Hampshire | #99 | 11 | 1 in 324 |
| New Mexico | #106 | 14 | 1 in 416 |
| Michigan | #112 | 77 | 1 in 523 |
| Virginia | #112 | 71 | 1 in 506 |
| North Carolina | #114 | 85 | 1 in 530 |
| Maryland | #121 | 43 | 1 in 543 |
| Oklahoma | #131 | 30 | 1 in 522 |
| Ohio | #139 | 79 | 1 in 646 |
| Missouri | #144 | 43 | 1 in 616 |
| Pennsylvania | #145 | 74 | 1 in 680 |
| Indiana | #146 | 46 | 1 in 646 |
| Florida | #149 | 119 | 1 in 715 |
| Kansas | #156 | 21 | 1 in 574 |
| Texas | #168 | 185 | 1 in 859 |
| South Dakota | #179 | 6 | 1 in 510 |
| Montana | #191 | 5 | 1 in 546 |
| Nevada | #201 | 14 | 1 in 758 |
| New Jersey | #208 | 38 | 1 in 945 |
| Massachusetts | #209 | 27 | 1 in 911 |
| Colorado | #217 | 25 | 1 in 891 |
| District of Columbia | #221 | 5 | 1 in 608 |
| Wisconsin | #236 | 23 | 1 in 968 |
| New York | #249 | 74 | 1 in 1,171 |
| Nebraska | #253 | 9 | 1 in 833 |
| Iowa | #281 | 12 | 1 in 1,023 |
| Connecticut | #301 | 10 | 1 in 1,156 |
| Arizona | #307 | 23 | 1 in 1,278 |
| Illinois | #357 | 33 | 1 in 1,622 |
| Washington | #374 | 19 | 1 in 1,601 |
| Minnesota | #387 | 15 | 1 in 1,566 |
| Utah | #527 | 7 | 1 in 2,384 |
| California | #605 | 60 | 1 in 3,158 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 883 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 99.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 181,616 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 46.0% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,136Zuhaib11
- #7,136Zurich11
- #7,136Zylen11
- #7,617Ryleigh10
- #7,617Aadarsh10
- #7,617Aadith10
- #7,617Aahaan10
- #8,154Aariyan9
- #8,154Abdelrahman9
- #8,154Abdikadir9
Tied with 536 names at #7,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.