Riely
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Riely has been given to 359 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2008, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 51% girls, 49% boys all-time.
Babies named Riely, 2016
1 in 524,000
Riely 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Riely over time
In 2016, Riely went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Riely?
Riely had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Riely sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Riely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rielys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Riely was born before 2005 — so the typical Riely is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 64.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 182
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 64.8% of all recorded uses (118).
Is Riely 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 2008 (16)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Riely
Riely is not the most common spelling — Lily is, with 31.4% against Riely's 0.03%.
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.
Riely around the world
Where Riely 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 & Wales2005–2013#4,685in 2013
- Canada1996–1996#1,753in 1996
- South Australia1998–2012#771in 2012
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.
Riely by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Riely
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Riely
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.