Ryleigh
- Pronunciation
- [Ry-leigh]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Island Meadow.
- Origin
- Irish
Ryleigh Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 429 baby boys have been named Ryleigh. The name peaked in 2012 with 31 US births that year (rank #3515). In 2024, ranked #6387 nationally — 2,872 places below its 2012 peak.
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Quick Facts About Ryleigh
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Ryleigh by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2019 with 2,024 girls named Ryleigh (girl rank #138 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #344 for girls (891 US births). That's 206 places below its 2019 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 Ryleigh 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 Ryleigh the strongest states are Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #44 | 415 |
| 2 | Alabama | #55 | 642 |
| 3 | Louisiana | #78 | 490 |
| 4 | South Carolina | #87 | 467 |
| 5 | Georgia | #98 | 899 |
| 6 | Rhode Island | #101 | 29 |
| 7 | West Virginia | #103 | 154 |
| 8 | Arkansas | #105 | 296 |
| 9 | Tennessee | #114 | 565 |
| 10 | Delaware | #115 | 54 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #656 | 501 |
| 2 | Utah | #608 | 43 |
| 3 | Arizona | #501 | 151 |
| 4 | Minnesota | #488 | 101 |
| 5 | Washington | #435 | 161 |
| 6 | Oregon | #377 | 74 |
| 7 | Nebraska | #345 | 69 |
| 8 | Nevada | #338 | 69 |
| 9 | Illinois | #335 | 359 |
| 10 | Iowa | #323 | 77 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Ryleigh in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Ryleigh to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Ryleigh against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).