Ryleigh

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Ryleigh: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #328, and it stood at #381 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#328highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2004	#2278
2005	#2247
2006	#1748
2007	#2410
2008	#1391
2009	#1411
2010	#2104
2011	#1225
2012	#1649
2013	#2313
2014	#1798
2015	#1783
2016	#1086
2017	#1021
2018	#1111
2019	#920
2020	#853
2021	#1039
2022	#839
2023	#941
2024	#1065

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #476 among girls in Scotland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1065 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #328 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #381 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ryleigh appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 515 births with the name.

Ryleigh across 5 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.

Ryleigh'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 · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#839 (2022)	#1065 (2024)	25 of 27	515 (1998–2024)	42 (2020)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1087 (2011)	#4270 (2024)	23 of 26	243 (1999–2024)	24 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#747 (2013)	#381 (2025)	#381 (2025)	11 of 13	75 (2013–2025)	10 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#548 (2012)	#548 (2012)	#749 (2018)	2 of 7	8 (2012–2018)	5 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#328 (2023)	#407 (2024)	5 of 6	18 (2019–2024)	4 (2020)

Ryleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Ryleigh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	90	9 of 10	10
2010s	236	10 of 10	24
2020sbusiest	186	5 of 10	37

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 37 births a year.

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

Ryleigh 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 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Ryleigh'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	female	#1065	32	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#839	42	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1039	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#853	42	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#920	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1111	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1021	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1086	32	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1539	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1087	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1343	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1190	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#381	10	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#410	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	9	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	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 1998 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #328, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 42 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

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.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 26 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.

Rylan · #247, 29y
Rylee · #229, 27y
Ryley · #204, 29y
Rylie · #281, 26y

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.

Lilianna · #328, 26y
Rayah · #328, 22y
Cade · #330, 30y
Elio · #326, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Diogo · #328, 28y
Lilianna · #328, 26y
Madelyn · #328, 30y
Rayah · #328, 22y

Ryleigh was ranked #328 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Ryleigh 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 Ryleigh without appearing here.

Ryleigh moved ahead of

Tove Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1391 and #5545.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2313 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1798 and #4684.
Cecilie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3594 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2247 and #4798.
Finley Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2410 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1391 and #3860.

Moved ahead of Ryleigh

Harald Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #3254.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1798 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1783 and #1240.
Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1486 and #2079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2319 and #1902.
Daithi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #3112.

Moved the opposite way to Ryleigh

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ryleigh

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ryleigh went from #3848 to #1065 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ryleigh

Ryleigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ryleigh across 5 official records

Ryleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ryleigh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ryleigh

Ryleigh and the names beside it

Ryleigh moved ahead of

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Ryleigh at a glance

Ryleigh across 5 official records

Ryleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ryleigh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ryleigh

Ryleigh and the names beside it

Ryleigh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ryleigh

Moved the opposite way to Ryleigh

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