Reilly

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Reilly: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Reilly: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #291 in 2008, and it stood at #535 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#291highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2020

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2002	#3409
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#4157
2007	#4294
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2015	#5730
2016	#4763
2017	#5765
2020	#3899

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #3688 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2006–2017
Highest recorded position: #291 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2006–2017).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Reilly appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 712 births with the name.

Reilly across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Reilly's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#569 (2012)	#3688 (2024)	29 of 29	712 (1996–2024)	63 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3409 (2002)	#3899 (2020)	12 of 23	45 (1998–2020)	5 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#341 (2006)	#291 (2008)	#415 (2017)	7 of 12	24 (2006–2017)	5 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#635 (2018)	#635 (2018)	#770 (2023)	3 of 6	10 (2018–2023)	4 (2018)

Reilly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Reilly in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	326	10 of 10	33
2010s	322	10 of 10	32
2020s	43	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Reilly appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #291 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Reilly's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1123	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1159	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#959	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#692	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#569	63	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#652	50	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#721	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#627	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#613	51	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#731	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#617	46	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#666	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#703	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#710	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1033	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#341	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #291, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 63 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bobbi · #291, 30y
Maksim · #291, 24y
Nataniel · #289, 27y
Aura · #288, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arvin · #291, 30y
Bobbi · #291, 30y
Katelin · #291, 22y
Kuba · #291, 22y

Reilly was ranked #291 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Reilly and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Reilly without appearing here.

Reilly moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.
Finlay Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4294 and #2627 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #5785.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5765 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Josefine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5765 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Reilly

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #2893.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #2018.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1461.
Gunnar Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1723 and #1935 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #1860.

Moved the opposite way to Reilly

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Reilly

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reilly went from #2357 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #291 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Reilly

Reilly at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Reilly across 4 official records

Reilly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Reilly appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Reilly at a glance

Reilly across 4 official records

Reilly by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Reilly appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Reilly

Reilly and the names beside it

Reilly moved ahead of

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