Rylei

Gender: Girl
Say it: RY-lee
Origin: English
US rank, 2025: #4,459 for girls

Rylei is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “rye clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,459th for girls in the US (31 babies).

What does Rylei mean?

English: variant of Riley, an English and Irish surname

“rye clearing”

The English surname Riley comes from a place name meaning 'rye clearing'; the Irish Reilly has a separate origin.

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

Rylei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 31 girls and 5 boys in the US.

How popular is Rylei in the US?

Rank in 2025: 4,459th among girls
Babies in 2025: 31 about 1 in 52,000 girls
Five-year trend: Falling down 41% in five years
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 31 girls in the US were named Rylei, making it the 4,459th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,580th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 82 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998. 5 boys were also named Rylei in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).

2025 had fewer girls named Rylei than any year since 2004.

Half of all the girls named Rylei in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 8,469 girls in the US were given Rylei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #13, up from #4,459 for this spelling alone.

Riley 4,441
Rylee 2,118
Ryleigh 891
Rylie 644
Rhylee 85
Reilly 60
Ryley 39
Rylei 31

1998Busiest: 82 in 20182025

Rylei in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	31	#4,459
2024	50	#3,176
2023	48	#3,329
2022	51	#3,170
2021	74	#2,416
2020	66	#2,580
2019	71	#2,482
2018	82	#2,238
2017	58	#2,873
2016	80	#2,343
2015	72	#2,501
2014	64	#2,712
2013	60	#2,836
2012	61	#2,831
2011	68	#2,613
2010	50	#3,255
2009	50	#3,297
2008	41	#3,858
2007	47	#3,481
2006	39	#3,853
2005	36	#3,938
2004	27	#4,812
2003	21	#5,581
2002	20	#5,669
2001	16	#6,614
2000	8	#10,738
1999	10	#8,798
1998	7	#11,132