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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Riley

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#48

down −6 places

2025 births

4,441

down −216 births

All-time births

141,960

3% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2016
7,159 births
Best rank
#22
in 2016
First recorded
1923
#5,572 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2012
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
66 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20167,159#22Peak
  2. 20176,368#25
  3. 20186,010#28
  4. 20085,774#39
  5. 20155,739#35

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #22 in 2016 · peak births 7,159 in 2016

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 43% boys■ 57% girls

105,025 boys · 141,960 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Riley has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.