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Riley
Pronounced /ˈɹaɪ.li/
Rank in 2024
#42
Born in 2024
4,644
Peak year
2016 · #22
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:1,567 in 2024 (#229)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 4,644 girls were named Riley, about 1 in every 347.
- It peaked in 2016 with 7,159 babies, ranked #22.
- It first shows up in the records in 1923.
- 137,477 girls have been named Riley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Riley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 2.3Gen Z1997–12
- 3.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 32 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 24 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 103 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,040 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 66,808 babies, 2.30 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 65,465 babies, 3.22 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge (“rye”) + leah (“clearing, meadow”). Equivalent to rye + -ley (“lea”). A variant of Reilly, from Irish Ó Raghallaigh (see O'Reilly).
- (countable) A unisex given name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
- A female given name from surname, of 1990s and later usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɹaɪ.li/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Riley, CC BY-SA 4.0.