Reiley
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reiley has been given to 942 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.
Babies named Reiley, 2023
1 in 663,000
Reiley over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Reiley over time
In 2023, Reiley went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Reiley?
Reiley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reiley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reiley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reileys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reiley was born before 2004 — so the typical Reiley is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 618
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (287).
Is Reiley rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (37)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Spellings of Reiley
Reiley is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 25.8% against Reiley's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Reiley is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Reiley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,764,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Reiley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Reiley is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Reiley was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Reiley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reiley around the world
Where Reiley ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2000–2000#2,489in 2000
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Reiley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Reiley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reiley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.