Reilly
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · #2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
Given to girls 54.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 360 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,528since 1978
Reilly 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 | #2,676 | 48 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #2,130 | 64 |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 | #1,790 | 84 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | #1,536 | 104 |
| 2013 | #1,929 | 103 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #1,202 | 149 |
| 2011 | #1,564 | 140 | #1,219 | 143 |
| 2010 | #1,574 | 139 | #1,137 | 163 |
| 2009 | #1,432 | 163 | #1,078 | 172 |
| 2008 | #1,286 | 193 | #954 | 210 |
| 2007 | #1,244 | 199 | #909 | 218 |
| 2006 | #1,314 | 178 | #1,043 | 174 |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | #976 | 178 |
| 2004 | #903 | 268 | #988 | 168 |
| 2003 | #869 | 276 | #873 | 196 |
| 2002 | #775 | 305 | #823 | 204 |
| 2001 | #737 | 325 | #817 | 202 |
| 2000 | #795 | 289 | #824 | 194 |
| 1999 | #696 | 324 | #867 | 174 |
| 1998 | #623 | 379 | #906 | 159 |
| 1997 | #622 | 360 | #799 | 183 |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | #914 | 143 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | #1,187 | 95 |
| 1994 | #1,827 | 78 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 | #1,621 | 54 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #2,374 | 52 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Reilly! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Reilly
- 128 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #2,822)
- 606 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,822)
- 699 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 449 spots in 1997 (#1,071 → #622)
- Biggest drop: 108 spots in 2005 (#903 → #1,011)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1997 at #622 (360 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1997–2004
- Highest: 1 in 4,662 girls born in 1998 were named Reilly (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #622 in 1997, was only 1 in 4,835 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.1% of all girls named Reilly (2,437) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,562 |
| 1980s | 108 | #4,358 (1989) | #7,143 |
| 1990s | 1,596 | #622 (1997) | #1,692 |
| 2000s | 2,437 | #737 (2001) | #1,037 |
| 2010s | 996 | #1,564 (2011) | #2,029 |
| 2020s | 385 | #2,216 (2020) | #2,709 |
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.
Reilly in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 7,667 of them was named Reilly, which outranked 94.7% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 11,221 of them was named Reilly, which outranked 92.7% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).