Ryleigh

#343 for girls in 2025, 891 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2019 · 2,025 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
35,139
since 1986

Ryleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ryleigh has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002peak #138, 2019girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#343891#8,9108
2024#3021,040#6,19914
2023#2631,186#5,25518
2022#1911,544#8,3009
2021#1641,755#7,08911
2020#1591,761#5,69915
2019#1382,025#5,55516
2018#1451,927#7,61710
2017#1611,858#4,74620
2016#1701,890#7,60510
2015#1981,661#4,54521
2014#1871,757#6,30713
2013#1871,726#3,75327
2012#1831,713#3,45031
2011#1931,647#3,69528
2010#1851,677#5,74115
2009#2421,384#5,33417
2008#2651,289#3,82327
2007#3021,126#4,99618
2006#3281,007#5,52515
2005#351899#6,22612
2004#411743#4,00522
2003#478615#6,25811
2002#495560#4,91915
2001#677369#5,66712
2000#832269#9,1126
1999#953217#9,9125
1998#1,141166#9,6315
1997#1,206149#8,1106
1996#1,76784
1995#2,21660
1994#2,98839
1993#3,15836
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First appearance
1986

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.

See more about Ryleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 2019 at #138 (2,025 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 27 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 829
  • Highest: 1 in 829 girls born in 2019 were named Ryleigh (0.12%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,804 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 50.9% of all girls named Ryleigh (17,881) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s13#9,545 (1986)#9,613
1990s807#953 (1999)#2,992
2000s8,261#242 (2009)#438
2010s17,881#138 (2019)#175
2020s8,177#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 2002

girls
#495
560 births · 1 in 3,209 girls
boys
#4,919
15 births · 1 in 129,434 boys

Top girls' names in 2002

  1. #1Emily24,470
  2. #2Madison21,774
  3. #3Hannah18,828
  4. #4Emma16,558
  5. #5Alexis15,636
  6. #6Ashley15,344
  7. #7Abigail15,303
  8. #8Sarah14,779
  9. #9Samantha14,671
  10. #10Olivia14,631
  11. #495Ryleigh560

Top boys' names in 2002

  1. #1Jacob30,586
  2. #2Michael28,258
  3. #3Joshua25,998
  4. #4Matthew25,154
  5. #5Ethan22,113
  6. #6Andrew22,037
  7. #7Joseph21,920
  8. #8Christopher21,689
  9. #9Nicholas21,390
  10. #10Daniel21,352
  11. #4,919Ryleigh15
More about 2002

girls

1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 3,209 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 97.3% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ryleigh
  1. #492Alanna565
  2. #493Dulce564
  3. #493Kierra564
  4. #495Ryleigh560
  5. #496Brandy559
  6. #496Elisa559
  7. #498Angelique557
Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. 1,168Cadence#2,126#958
  2. 949Lisbeth#1,573#624
  3. 710Ashanti#825#115
  4. 464Elle#1,076#612
  5. 412Nyla#865#453
Fallers
  1. 1,141Citlalli#609#1,750
  2. 748Nallely#772#1,520
  3. 617Dafne#967#1,584
  4. 582Beyonce#700#1,282
  5. 540Mikaila#928#1,468

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

boys

1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 129,434 of them was named Ryleigh, which outranked 60.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ryleigh
  1. #4,703Ziyon16
  2. #4,703Zoe16
  3. #4,703Zyquan16
  4. #4,919Ryleigh15
  5. #4,919Akaash15
  6. #4,919Alaa15
  7. #4,919Ameya15
  8. #5,131Abhiram14
  9. #5,131Aboubacar14
  10. #5,131Adams14

Tied with 211 names at #4,919; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. 10,021Omarion#10,556#535
  2. 3,583Amarion#4,302#719
  3. 3,370Yahir#3,974#604
  4. 1,466Gael#2,185#719
  5. 1,287Lisandro#2,185#898
Fallers
  1. 546Daunte#968#1,514
  2. 405Imanol#921#1,326
  3. 376Shemar#594#970
  4. 347Jade#958#1,305
  5. 311Jalon#873#1,184

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

See the top 100 for 2002