Riel
#6,725 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riel has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #6,725 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Riel, 2025
1 in 255,000
Riel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Riel over time
In 2025, Riel went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Riel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,725
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Riels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riel was born before 2014 — so the typical Riel is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Riel 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
- +2,102
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,859
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,889
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (13)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Riel
Riel is not the most common spelling — Joel is, with 19.1% against Riel's <0.01%.
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.
Riel around the world
Where Riel 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 & Wales2018–2024#5,120in 2024
- Canada1991–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 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.
Riel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Riel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.