Rylee
- Pronunciation
- [Ry-lee]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- English Meadow. Variant Of Riley.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Rylee
Rylee is a modern spelling of Riley, a name rooted in English place and surname tradition and often understood as "rye meadow" or "meadow clearing." Drawn from the landscape, it began as a description of a place before becoming a hugely popular given name, and the -ee ending gives this particular version a bright, contemporary lift that fit perfectly with the relaxed, melodic naming style of recent decades.
As a boys' name, Rylee carries the relaxed, friendly sound that made the wider Riley family so popular, with an easygoing, modern feel. Its soft consonants and open ending give it real warmth, and its phonetic spelling reflects the current taste for fresh, individual takes on familiar favorites. It reads as approachable and cheerful — a name with a light, sunfussy charm that crosses easily between casual and more formal settings.
Rylee first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for boys in 2001 and peaked in 2010 at rank #731. It held a place in the rankings through 2014, ranking #880 that year, after sitting at #840 in 2012 with 257 births. Across its run it accounts for 3,477 recorded births, marking it as a recognizable choice during the rise of soft, surname-style names in the 2000s and 2010s. It remains a friendly, breezy choice with the relaxed charm that defined its generation.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Rylee
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Rylee by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2010 with 2,984 girls named Rylee (girl rank #102 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #137 for girls (2,118 US births). That's 35 places below its 2010 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Rylee Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Rylee the strongest states are Montana, South Dakota, Kentucky.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montana | #56 | 131 |
| 2 | South Dakota | #57 | 141 |
| 3 | Kentucky | #63 | 516 |
| 4 | Alabama | #65 | 545 |
| 5 | Mississippi | #72 | 311 |
| 6 | West Virginia | #75 | 235 |
| 7 | Arkansas | #76 | 316 |
| 8 | Idaho | #76 | 213 |
| 9 | Tennessee | #78 | 739 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #79 | 395 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #170 | 1,895 |
| 2 | New Jersey | #166 | 434 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | #164 | 331 |
| 4 | Illinois | #153 | 651 |
| 5 | New York | #150 | 1,015 |
| 6 | Rhode Island | #144 | 45 |
| 7 | Texas | #136 | 2,050 |
| 8 | Maryland | #134 | 365 |
| 9 | Colorado | #129 | 398 |
| 10 | New Mexico | #128 | 122 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Rylee in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Rylee against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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