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Riley
Pronounced /ˈɹaɪ.li/
Rank in 2024
#229
Born in 2024
1,567
Peak year
2006 · #101
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:4,644 in 2024 (#42)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,567 boys were named Riley, about 1 in every 1,095.
- It peaked in 2006 with 4,396 babies, ranked #101.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 103,344 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 1.9Gen Z1997–12
- 1.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,877 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 2,763 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,651 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,668 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,297 babies, 0.44 per 1,000. Gen Z: 58,438 babies, 1.86 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,753 babies, 0.96 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.