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Rhylee vs Rhylie

American parents have registered 2,766 Rhylees since 1880, against 616 Rhylies. Rhylee is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rhylee Rhylie

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 1997, when Rhylee had 8 and Rhylie had 7.

Side by side

  Rhylee Rhylie
Total US births 2,766616
Most in one year 24841
Babies in 2025 9014
Estimated living today 2,700610
Median age today 911
Peak year 20192014
Best rank 1,079th girls3,719th girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rd7,491st
First recorded 19931996
Girls / boys 2,504 / 262616 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Rhylies alive today are over 11; half the Rhylees are over 9. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Rhylie
England and Wales 22341

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 Rhylie.