Ryanlee
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ryanlee has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 1984, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Ryanlee, 1992
1 in 768,000
Ryanlee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ryanlee?
Ryanlee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ryanlee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ryanlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ryanlees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ryanlee was born before 1985 — so the typical Ryanlee is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Ryanlee 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 1984 (5)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Ryanlee
Ryanlee is not the most common spelling — Rylee is, with 99.6% against Ryanlee's 0.36%.
- Rylee99.6%5,547
- Ryanlee0.36%20
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.
Ryanlee around the world
Where Ryanlee 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 & Wales1996–2022#4,790in 2022
- South Australia1996–1996#540in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ryanlee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ryanlee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ryanlee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.