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How popular is “Riley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Riley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Riley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Riley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Riley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Riley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Riley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Riley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 41 0.00020349 41 -100%
1881 47 0.000243918 47 -100%
1882 54 0.000243756 54 -100%
1883 45 0.000207425 45 -100%
1884 47 0.000193049 47 -100%
1885 58 0.00024081 58 -100%
1886 39 0.000152752 39 -100%
1887 46 0.00018594 46 -100%
1888 37 0.00012355 37 -100%
1889 44 0.000152278 44 -100%
1890 39 0.000129396 39 -100%
1891 28 0.000097672 28 -100%
1892 39 0.000116636 39 -100%
1893 36 0.000110693 36 -100%
1894 38 0.000112197 38 -100%
1895 49 0.000139593 49 -100%
1896 39 0.000109096 39 -100%
1897 44 0.000126817 44 -100%
1898 39 0.00010224 39 -100%
1899 35 0.000103174 35 -100%
1900 53 0.00011771 53 -100%
1901 30 0.000086752 30 -100%
1902 37 0.000095673 37 -100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 -100%
1904 32 0.000079309 32 -100%
1905 34 0.000080203 34 -100%
1906 37 0.000086358 37 -100%
1907 40 0.000085949 40 -100%
1908 42 0.000085951 42 -100%
1909 49 0.000095848 49 -100%
1910 63 0.000106651 63 -100%
1911 47 0.00007295 47 -100%
1912 87 0.000088051 87 -100%
1913 97 0.000085304 97 -100%
1914 101 0.00007131 101 -100%
1915 142 0.000077493 142 -100%
1916 166 0.000085814 166 -100%
1917 139 0.000069266 139 -100%
1918 174 0.000080143 174 -100%
1919 194 0.000091932 194 -100%
1920 166 0.000073366 166 -100%
1921 160 0.000068537 160 -100%
1922 163 0.000071205 163 -100%
1923 179 0.000077742 5 174 -94%
1924 168 0.000070541 168 -100%
1925 165 0.000070715 165 -100%
1926 179 0.000077965 179 -100%
1927 162 0.000069847 162 -100%
1928 168 0.000074305 168 -100%
1929 169 0.000077093 6 163 -93%
1930 167 0.000075114 5 162 -94%
1931 137 0.000065102 137 -100%
1932 131 0.000062047 131 -100%
1933 153 0.000076521 153 -100%
1934 156 0.000075115 156 -100%
1935 156 0.000074645 156 -100%
1936 156 0.000075087 156 -100%
1937 145 0.000068054 6 139 -92%
1938 141 0.000063727 141 -100%
1939 139 0.000063083 139 -100%
1940 150 0.000065141 150 -100%
1941 179 0.000073468 5 174 -94%
1942 162 0.000059301 5 157 -94%
1943 176 0.000062355 5 171 -94%
1944 171 0.000063567 171 -100%
1945 139 0.000052395 139 -100%
1946 166 0.000051951 166 -100%
1947 192 0.000053299 6 186 -94%
1948 179 0.000051846 179 -100%
1949 170 0.000048784 170 -100%
1950 152 0.000043387 152 -100%
1951 151 0.000040991 5 146 -93%
1952 170 0.00004476 7 163 -92%
1953 164 0.000042557 164 -100%
1954 166 0.000041701 166 -100%
1955 130 0.000032378 130 -100%
1956 134 0.0000325 134 -100%
1957 147 0.000034982 6 141 -92%
1958 115 0.000027819 115 -100%
1959 113 0.000027177 113 -100%
1960 107 0.000025759 107 -100%
1961 102 0.000024624 102 -100%
1962 112 0.000027755 112 -100%
1963 99 0.000025011 99 -100%
1964 106 0.000027266 106 -100%
1965 79 0.00002179 6 73 -85%
1966 93 0.000026758 93 -100%
1967 73 0.000021503 73 -100%
1968 99 0.000029304 5 94 -90%
1969 79 0.000022732 79 -100%
1970 78 0.000021628 78 -100%
1971 96 0.000027969 96 -100%
1972 85 0.000027044 85 -100%
1973 97 0.000032152 7 90 -86%
1974 93 0.000030592 8 85 -83%
1975 118 0.000039081 11 107 -81%
1976 113 0.000037241 7 106 -88%
1977 126 0.000039666 10 116 -84%
1978 180 0.000056713 13 167 -86%
1979 178 0.000053502 16 162 -82%
1980 184 0.000053418 20 164 -78%
1981 206 0.000059548 25 181 -76%
1982 234 0.000066705 36 198 -69%
1983 262 0.00007565 37 225 -72%
1984 274 0.000078538 22 252 -84%
1985 398 0.000111512 64 334 -68%
1986 502 0.000141127 99 403 -61%
1987 564 0.000156423 88 476 -69%
1988 653 0.000176723 124 529 -62%
1989 844 0.000219537 169 675 -60%
1990 1052 0.000266162 238 814 -55%
1991 1151 0.000295487 286 865 -50%
1992 1491 0.000388153 424 1067 -43%
1993 1931 0.000512164 553 1378 -43%
1994 2344 0.000630505 756 1588 -35%
1995 2888 0.000788607 969 1919 -33%
1996 3543 0.000971431 1150 2393 -35%
1997 4502 0.001241675 1669 2833 -26%
1998 4890 0.001329452 1877 3013 -23%
1999 5282 0.001429938 2312 2970 -12%
2000 5973 0.001580199 2552 3421 -15%
2001 6697 0.00178902 3044 3653 -9%
2002 7865 0.002103903 3906 3959 -1%
2003 8320 0.002188138 4243 4077 2%
2004 9092 0.00237953 4982 4110 10%
2005 9237 0.002402438 5127 4110 11%
2006 9452 0.002389168 5056 4396 7%
2007 9185 0.002297581 5212 3973 13%
2008 9904 0.002519676 5773 4131 17%
2009 9427 0.002467688 5636 3791 20%
2010 9192 0.002487189 5543 3649 21%
2011 8505 0.002325173 5043 3462 19%
2012 7723 0.002111628 4833 2890 25%
2013 7500 0.002057237 4941 2559 32%
2014 7244 0.00195447 4798 2446 32%
2015 7831 0.002115965 5738 2093 47%
2016 8887 0.002422385 7159 1728 61%
2017 7837 0.002191435 6366 1471 62%
2018 7479 0.002127195 6009 1470 61%
2019 7083 0.002040662 5710 1373 61%
2020 6706 0.002007438 5338 1368 59%
2021 6667 0.001967857 5219 1448 57%
2022 6505 0.001922773 4906 1599 51%
2023 6268 0.001892972 4637 1631 48%
2024 6211 0.001866005 4644 1567 50%

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