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Ryley

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
RY-lee
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#1,473 for boys
US rank, 2025
#3,779 for girls

Ryley is a name of English origin, meaning “rye clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 1,473rd for boys in the UK (19 babies) and 3,779th for girls in the US (39 babies).

What does Ryley mean?

English: spelling of Riley

“rye clearing”

A spelling of Riley, the English and Irish surname.

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

In recent years, Ryley has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls and 19 boys in the UK and 39 girls and 28 boys in the US.

How popular is Ryley in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,473among boys
Babies in 2025
19about 1 in 16,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 36% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the UK were named Ryley, making it the 1,473rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,105th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 267 boys. 4 girls were also named Ryley in 2025 (4,935th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Ryley in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 763 boys in the UK were given Ryley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #84, up from #1,473 for this spelling alone.

In 2025, 17% of the babies named Ryley in the UK were girls.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,612th in England and Wales and 762nd in Scotland.

1996Busiest: 267 in 20112025
Ryley in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#1,473
202416#1,664
202319#1,454
202233#998
202136#931
202027#1,105
201933#970
201825#1,173
201734#985
201651#738
201561#640
201490#497
2013119#388
2012252#227
2011267#217
2010205#258
2009201#248
2008169#284
2007135#317
2006112#343
2005102#344
200484#380
200365#437
200242#556
200137#576
200015#1,057
199911#1,267
199813#1,112
19975#2,109
19966#1,840

How popular is Ryley in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,779among girls
Babies in 2025
39about 1 in 41,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 54% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 39 girls in the US were named Ryley, making it the 3,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,631st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 186 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984. 28 boys were also named Ryley in 2025 (3,847th for boys).

Half of all the girls named Ryley in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 8,469 girls in the US were given Ryley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #13, up from #3,779 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 10% of the babies named Ryley in the US in 1990, and 58% in 2025.

1984Busiest: 186 in 20072025
Ryley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202539#3,779
202435#4,113
202338#3,909
202258#2,894
202165#2,638
202064#2,631
2019103#1,919
201877#2,361
201769#2,546
201697#2,033
201584#2,236
201493#2,081
201397#2,002
2012117#1,760
2011121#1,715
2010151#1,489
2009162#1,441
2008173#1,381
2007186#1,308
2006141#1,546
2005176#1,273
2004165#1,293
2003174#1,217
2002132#1,443
2001128#1,467
200099#1,755
1999124#1,414
199890#1,749
199771#1,999
199653#2,420
199537#3,082
199438#3,033
199330#3,580
199214#6,307
199116#5,653
19906#11,403
19890–
19886#10,381
19870–
19867#8,518
19850–
19845#10,417

Names like Ryley

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

Other spellings of Ryley

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ryley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ryley, updated 20 October 2026.