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Rhylee

#2,191 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rhylee has been given to 2,766 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,191 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 233 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Rhylee, 2025

1 in 39,000

Rhylee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Rhylee over time

In 2025, Rhylee went to 94% girls and 6% boys.

19932025

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.

Rhylee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rhylee means

Rhylee is a given name.

The naming story behind Rhylee

Wikidata records Rhylee as a given name. The entity identifier is Q99336809, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,504 girls were recorded with the name Rhylee between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 233 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,081 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,341 in 2020 to #2,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,727 in 2015 to #2,191 in 2025.

In the United States, 262 boys were recorded with the name Rhylee between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,287 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,707 in 2020 to #13,471 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,236 in 2015 to #13,471 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rhylee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,191
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rhylee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhylee was born before 2016 — so the typical Rhylee is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,504
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (1,344).

Is Rhylee 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
−162
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−850
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−464
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.5%
Peak was 2019 (233)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,081
2019

Spellings of Rhylee

Rhylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 32.1% against Rhylee's 0.57%.

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 Rhylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Rhylee was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 12,871 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

237 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,703
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 5,882
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 7,692
  5. 5Alabama1 in 8,333
  6. 6Maryland1 in 10,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 10,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 11,111

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.

Rhylee around the world

Where Rhylee 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2009–2021
    #2,397
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rhylee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 850
Best rank ever
#1,081
2019
Peak year
2019
233 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,504
Count in 2025
85

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,471
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,764
Best rank ever
#4,287
2016
Peak year
2016
24 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
262
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Rhylee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Rhylee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rhylee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rhylee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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