girls:
64.6k births since 1980
#495 (91st percentile)
boys:
5.4k births since 1983
#1633 (64th percentile)
overall:
70k births since 1980
#869 (89th percentile)
The name Rylee is the #869 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,983 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 88.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #495 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 64,623 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #1,633 (64.4% percentile) for all time with 5,360 births since 1983.
Rylee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 1983 for boys).
The name Rylee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rylee reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 89.7% percentile (ranked #97) with 1,513 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 1,566 births per million (ranked 89.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rylee ranks #114 for girls (88.1% percentile) with 1,331 births per million, which is 85.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rylee reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 33.3% percentile (ranked #588) with 152 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 153 births per million (ranked 33.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rylee ranks #800 for boys (12.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 41.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rylee".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Rylee", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 59 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Riley" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Riley..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rylee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.8% confident that Rylee is pronounced as RAI-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RIH-lee, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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