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Rylee vs Rylie

American parents have registered 74,557 Rylees since 1880, against 24,485 Rylies. Rylee is still ahead, with 2,202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rylee against Rylie, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rylee Rylie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Rylee had 31 and Rylie had 17.

Side by side

  Rylee Rylie
Total US births 74,55724,485
Most in one year 3,2981,114
Babies in 2025 2,202665
Estimated living today 74,00024,000
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20102008
Best rank 102nd girls318th girls
Rank in 2025 137th476th
First recorded 19801983
Girls / boys 69,010 / 5,54723,271 / 1,214

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rylee Rylie
England and Wales 2,055770
Scotland 126124
Ireland 1408
Northern Ireland 8218

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rylee and Rylie.