Rileigh

#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #10,770
Given to girls 98.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2004 · 207 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,832
since 1991

Rileigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Rileigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #1,102, 2004girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,09925
2024#4,47331
2023#4,45431
2022#4,29533
2021#2,67464
2020#2,77959
2019#2,65165
2018#2,30279
2017#2,23684
2016#1,667128
2015#1,711123
2014#1,684125
2013#1,273186
2012#1,425160#10,7706
2011#1,204199#12,2875
2010#1,165208
2009#1,146221#12,4915
2008#1,165220#11,0376
2007#1,257196#10,9216
2006#1,299180#8,7328
2005#1,173196
2004#1,102207#8,1438
2003#1,105199
2002#1,197170
2001#1,368139
2000#1,542116
1999#1,636102
1998#1,72192
1997#2,13865#8,1106
1996#3,09338
1995#3,58530
1994#4,84520
1993#4,10025
1992#7,51211
1991#13,1475
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five girls were named Rileigh! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Rileigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 626 spots since 2024 (#4,473#5,099)
  • 2,320 spots since 2020 (#2,779#5,099)
  • 3,388 spots since 2015 (#1,711#5,099)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2004 at #1,102 (207 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,313
  • Highest: 1 in 8,313 girls born in 2009 were named Rileigh (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,102 in 2004, was only 1 in 8,871 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.1% of all girls named Rileigh (1,844) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s388#1,636 (1999)#4,642
2000s1,844#1,102 (2004)#1,235
2010s1,357#1,165 (2010)#1,732
2020s243#2,674 (2021)#3,962

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.

Rileigh in 2006

girls
#1,299
180 births · 1 in 10,562 girls
boys
#8,732
8 births · 1 in 256,909 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #1,299Rileigh180

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #8,732Rileigh8
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 10,562 of them was named Rileigh, which outranked 93.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rileigh
  1. #1,295Brionna181
  2. #1,295Jaedyn181
  3. #1,295River181
  4. #1,299Rileigh180
  5. #1,299Annamarie180
  6. #1,299Dalila180
  7. #1,299Kai180
  8. #1,307Adrian179
  9. #1,307Aliah179
  10. #1,307Eloise179

Tied with 7 names at #1,299; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 256,909 of them was named Rileigh, which outranked 37.8% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rileigh
  1. #7,998Zoltan9
  2. #7,998Zoran9
  3. #7,998Zubin9
  4. #8,732Rileigh8
  5. #8,732Aahan8
  6. #8,732Aaran8
  7. #8,732Aarik8
  8. #9,585Aadon7
  9. #9,585Aahil7
  10. #9,585Abass7

Tied with 852 names at #8,732; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006