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Rilie

Gender
Girl
Say it
RY-lee
Origin
Irish

Rilie is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Rilie mean?

Irish: spelling of Rilee, itself a spelling of Riley, from the Irish surname O Raghallaigh

Riley comes mainly from the Irish surname Reilly, though some English Rileys take theirs from a place meaning 'rye clearing'.

Meaning borrowed from Rilee.

Is Rilie a girl's or a boy's name?

Rilie is a girls' name.

How popular is Rilie in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Rilie in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 21 in 20032020
Rilie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20205#15,083
20190–
20180–
20170–
20165#16,210
20150–
20145#16,507
20136#14,577
20126#14,956
20118#12,146
201011#9,786
200914#8,450
200820#6,556
200711#10,125
200613#8,711
200516#7,133
200421#5,740
200321#5,581
200217#6,386
200117#6,317
200014#7,152
19997#11,378
19988#10,116
199712#7,278
19968#9,576
19950–
19947#10,563

Names like Rilie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Rilie

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Rilie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rilie, updated 20 October 2026.