girls:
63 births since 2003
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1999
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
79 births since 1999
#7660 (1st percentile)
The name Rily is the #7,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 79 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 2003. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1999.
Rily first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Rily is available in 12 out of the 20 years between 1999 and 2018 (11 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rily has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 100.0% of babies named Rily were girls. Interestingly, until around 2004, the name was more popular for boys (54.5% boys from 1999 to 2003), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (85.3% girls from 2004 to 2018).
For girls, Rily reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #929) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
For boys, Rily reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #804) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rily".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rily. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Rily is pronounced as RIH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAI-lee, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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