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Rhylee vs Rhyleigh

American parents have registered 2,766 Rhylees since 1880, against 664 Rhyleighs. Rhylee is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rhylee against Rhyleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rhylee Rhyleigh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rhylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Rhylee had 144 and Rhyleigh had 53.

Side by side

  Rhylee Rhyleigh
Total US births 2,766664
Most in one year 24856
Babies in 2025 9027
Estimated living today 2,700660
Median age today 98
Peak year 20192019
Best rank 1,079th girls2,923rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rd4,878th
First recorded 19932002
Girls / boys 2,504 / 262664 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rhylee Rhyleigh
England and Wales 22317

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rhylee and Rhyleigh.