Rylee

“Variant of Riley — Rye meadow or clearing” — Old English origin

Girl's name · #137 in the US (2025) · 2010s

Rylee reached its best rank, #97, in 2021 and ranked #137 in 2025. About 69,000 girls have carried it since 1980. Together with its spelling variants Riley (#48) and Rylie (#478), Rylee would rank around #14 with about 7,200 births last year — the newborns split about 62/29/9 across Riley, Rylee, and Rylie.

Around the world: about 1 in 530 girls in New Zealand (2025) · about 1 in 960 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 1,800 girls in N. Ireland (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Rylees

Rylee Baisden — American soccer player
Rylee Traicoff — Guyanese association football player
Rylee Foster — Canadian association football player
Rylee Arnold — American dancer (born 2005)
Rylee Linting — American politician (born 2002)

What Rylees become

Among 23 notable people named Rylee:

Sports figures appear 2.91× more often than among typical names — e.g. Rylee Baisden, American soccer player.

Similar names: Riley · Skylar · Reese · Lilly · Peyton · Hadley

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