Riley
Riley is ranked 42nd among girls in 2024 (4,644 births). Its best rank was 22nd, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #42up 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,6440.29% of girls
- Peak year
- 20167,159 births
- Best rank
- #22in 2016
- Since 1923
- 240,821people given the name
The story in the numbers
137,477 girls have been named Riley in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 7,159 births — 0.40% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 41%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Riley is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are boys (103,344), most of them born around 2006.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Riley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | |
| 1930s | 11 | |
| 1940s | 21 | |
| 1950s | 18 | |
| 1960s | 11 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 684 | |
| 1990s | 10,234 | |
| 2000s | 45,531 | |
| 2010s | 56,140 | |
| 2020s | 24,744 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Riley was the 22nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Riley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zaydapeak 2020
- Khaliyahpeak 2009
- Myraclepeak 2019
- Nathaliapeak 2006
- Ryleepeak 2010
- Rhyanpeak 2018
- Ryliepeak 2008
- Loghanpeak 2018
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.