Ryley
#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,856since 1981
Ryley 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 | #3,780 | 39 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #4,114 | 35 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #3,911 | 38 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #2,631 | 64 | #2,728 | 45 |
| 2019 | #1,919 | 103 | #2,897 | 42 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #2,546 | 69 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 | #1,975 | 73 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 | #1,677 | 93 |
| 2014 | #2,081 | 93 | #1,473 | 110 |
| 2013 | #2,002 | 97 | #1,578 | 98 |
| 2012 | #1,760 | 117 | #1,237 | 143 |
| 2011 | #1,715 | 121 | #1,152 | 156 |
| 2010 | #1,489 | 151 | #1,149 | 161 |
| 2009 | #1,441 | 162 | #1,074 | 173 |
| 2008 | #1,381 | 173 | #1,161 | 156 |
| 2007 | #1,308 | 186 | #1,021 | 186 |
| 2006 | #1,546 | 141 | #1,116 | 156 |
| 2005 | #1,273 | 176 | #1,042 | 160 |
| 2004 | #1,294 | 165 | #1,007 | 164 |
| 2003 | #1,218 | 174 | #1,069 | 145 |
| 2002 | #1,444 | 132 | #985 | 160 |
| 2001 | #1,468 | 128 | #912 | 171 |
| 2000 | #1,759 | 99 | #902 | 172 |
| 1999 | #1,416 | 124 | #1,019 | 136 |
| 1998 | #1,751 | 90 | #1,072 | 122 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #993 | 130 |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 | #1,006 | 124 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 | #1,213 | 91 |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | #1,362 | 73 |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 | #1,539 | 59 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #1,482 | 59 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,547 | 54 |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | — | #2,272 | 25 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ryley! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1982, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Ryley is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Iowa#278 · 1 in 2,032
- Massachusetts#365 · 1 in 4,031
- Wisconsin#403 · 1 in 3,592
- Washington#445 · 1 in 3,746
- Utah#496 · 1 in 3,825
Best ever in a state: #174 in Maine, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #278 | 8 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Massachusetts | #365 | 9 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Wisconsin | #403 | 8 | 1 in 3,592 |
| Washington | #445 | 9 | 1 in 3,746 |
| Utah | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Florida | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 17,176 |
| California | #1,212 | 11 | 1 in 22,326 |
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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 Ryley
- 1,219 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #3,848)
- 1,120 spots since 2020 (#2,728 → #3,848)
- 2,171 spots since 2015 (#1,677 → #3,848)
- Biggest jump: 117 spots in 2000 (#1,019 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 84 spots in 2003 (#985 → #1,069)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2000 at #902 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2000–2002
- Highest: 1 in 11,158 boys born in 2007 were named Ryley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #902 in 2000, was only 1 in 11,419 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.6% of all boys named Ryley (1,643) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 128 | #2,272 (1987) | #3,884 |
| 1990s | 898 | #993 (1997) | #1,293 |
| 2000s | 1,643 | #902 (2000) | #1,029 |
| 2010s | 974 | #1,149 (2010) | #1,826 |
| 2020s | 213 | #2,728 (2020) | #3,459 |
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.
Ryley in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 24,517 of them was named Ryley, which outranked 87.6% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,983Remy72
- #1,983Torri72
- #1,983Tristyn72
- #2,002Ryley71
- #2,002Ami71
- #2,002Andi71
- #2,002Ania71
- #2,023Aleisha70
- #2,023Alexzandria70
- #2,023Andreina70
Tied with 20 names at #2,002; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,501 of them was named Ryley, which outranked 90.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).