Rye
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 86.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 76 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,070since 1971
Rye 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 | #8,860 | 11 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | — | #2,418 | 57 | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,325 | 61 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,922 | 76 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #2,919 | 40 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,772 | 43 |
| 2011 | — | #3,605 | 29 | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | — | #4,160 | 24 | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | — | #4,223 | 22 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,326 | 20 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,890 | 15 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
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| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rye! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rye
- 98 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,516)
- 594 spots since 2020 (#1,922 → #2,516)
- 403 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #2,516)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2020 at #1,922 (76 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,712 boys born in 2020 were named Rye (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Rye (407) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 47 | #3,569 (1979) | #4,636 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,940 (1980) | #5,498 |
| 1990s | 56 | #5,382 (1990) | #6,616 |
| 2000s | 161 | #4,160 (2009) | #5,357 |
| 2010s | 407 | #2,167 (2018) | #3,033 |
| 2020s | 357 | #1,922 (2020) | #2,344 |
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.
Rye 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 113,405 of them was named Rye, which outranked 59.2% 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).
- #7,100Zoraya16
- #7,100Zuzu16
- #7,100Zyanya16
- #7,409Rye15
- #7,409Aaravi15
- #7,409Aaron15
- #7,409Abiha15
- #7,762Aamirah14
- #7,762Aaruhi14
- #7,762Abbygale14
Tied with 352 names at #7,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 28,377 of them was named Rye, which outranked 84.7% 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).
- #2,147Theodor65
- #2,147Yandel65
- #2,147Zach65
- #2,167Rye64
- #2,167Aayush64
- #2,167Adriano64
- #2,167Alexavier64
- #2,189Bakari63
- #2,189Bennet63
- #2,189Breck63
Tied with 21 names at #2,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.