Riverleigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RIV-er-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Riverleigh is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “river + clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Riverleigh mean?
Modern: blend of River and Leigh
“river + clearing”
Is Riverleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Riverleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Riverleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,877th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Riverleigh, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. It first appears in the records in 2017.
2025 had the most girls named Riverleigh of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Riverleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the US were given Riverleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,353, up from #4,877 for this spelling alone.
Riverleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
Nicknames for Riverleigh
- River 525 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Riverleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rynlee, Oaklynn, Wrenley, Lakelynn, Novaleigh, Brynlee, Raelynn, Elowyn, Renesmee, Rylynn, Braelynn, Adaleigh
Other spellings of Riverleigh
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Mya, Ailani, Kayson
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, “Riverleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/riverleigh, updated 20 October 2026.