Rileigh
#5,200 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rileigh has been given to 3,882 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #5,200 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 221 recorded.
Babies named Rileigh, 2025
1 in 133,000
Rileigh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rileigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 64,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,200
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rileigh 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rileigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rileighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rileigh was born before 2008 — so the typical Rileigh is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,832
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (1,844).
Is Rileigh 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
- −657
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,384
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,483
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.20×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.3%
- Peak was 2009 (221)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.2% average annual change
Spellings of Rileigh
Rileigh is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 22.9% against Rileigh's 2.2%.
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 Rileigh is used
Across 2016–2025, Rileigh was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 45,093 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 2Georgia1 in 16,667
- 3Mississippi1 in 20,000
- 4Alabama1 in 25,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 25,000
- 6Oklahoma1 in 33,333
- 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 8Texas1 in 33,333
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.
Rileigh around the world
Where Rileigh 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 & Wales2003–2022#4,646in 2022
- Scotland2012–2012#815in 2012
- Canada1998–2019#2,941in 2019
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rileigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Rileigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Rileigh
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rileigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Rileigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.