How Many People Are Named Rylee?

73,946

people named Rylee are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 4,622 people in the US has this name

Based on 74,557 babies named Rylee in Social Security records from 1980 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#695

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#365

See the top 100

Peak Year

2010

3,298 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: RIE-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine variant of RILEY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rylee in English. Counting Rylee and these spellings together, about 133,542 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
92.6%
Male
7.4%

Of the babies given the name Rylee, 92.6% were girls and 7.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 86.3% of the babies were girls then and 95.6% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rylee alive today is about 13 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 19 in 2025.

Under 30 72,621
98.2%
30 to 59 1,326
1.8%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rylee first appears in the records in 1980 and was given most often in 2010, to 3,298 babies. In 2025, 2,202 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1980 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rylee never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #97, in 2021, and it was in the top 100 in 2 years between 2019 and 2021. In 2025 it ranked #137.

Girls
Rank in 2025#137
Best rank#97 (2021)
Years in the top 1002 (2019 to 2021)
Rank in its biggest decade#104 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rylee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rylee were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,129 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rylee was given 3.1 times as often in Wyoming, 2.9 times in Montana and 2.6 times in South Dakota.

Texas 6,129
California 5,622
Florida 3,641
Ohio 3,553
Pennsylvania 2,989
Michigan 2,688
Georgia 2,397
New York 2,249
Illinois 2,136
Missouri 2,086
North Carolina 2,007
Tennessee 2,006
Washington 1,877
Indiana 1,852
Utah 1,831
Arizona 1,772
Oklahoma 1,713
Kentucky 1,464
Virginia 1,420
Wisconsin 1,380
Louisiana 1,380
Minnesota 1,350
Colorado 1,293
Alabama 1,259
Iowa 1,143
Kansas 1,103
Oregon 1,090
New Jersey 989
South Carolina 965
Maryland 943
Arkansas 929
Massachusetts 926
Mississippi 777
Idaho 767
West Virginia 704
Nevada 674
Nebraska 669
Connecticut 489
Montana 411
South Dakota 395
North Dakota 354
Maine 321
New Mexico 319
Hawaii 294
New Hampshire 289
Delaware 192
Alaska 179
Wyoming 179
Rhode Island 87
Vermont 54
District of Columbia 35

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