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Reiley

About 942 American babies have been named Reiley since 1991, most of them around 1998. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 930 Reileys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Reiley boys named Reiley

Girls and boys called Reiley

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 618 girls and 324 boys in all, and in 2014 the split was 18 to 7.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 17 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
942
Estimated living today
930
Median age today
20
Peak year
1998
Best rank
3,301st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1991
Girls / boys
618 / 324

How old the living Reileys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 942 babies given the name since 1991, about 930 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Reileys

People named Reiley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Reiley is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular girls’ names the year Reiley peaked:

All the names of 1998

Reiley elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Reiley 47 2,036th
Scotland boys Reiley 3 648th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Reiley against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.