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How popular is “Ryley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ryley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ryley” 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 “Ryley” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ryley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ryley” 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
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 5 7 -17%
1985 20 0.000005604 20 -100%
1986 20 0.000005623 7 13 -30%
1987 25 0.000006934 25 -100%
1988 28 0.000007578 6 22 -57%
1989 22 0.000005723 22 -100%
1990 60 0.00001518 6 54 -80%
1991 75 0.000019254 16 59 -57%
1992 64 0.000016661 14 50 -56%
1993 89 0.000023606 30 59 -33%
1994 111 0.000029858 38 73 -32%
1995 128 0.000034952 37 91 -42%
1996 177 0.00004853 53 124 -40%
1997 201 0.000055437 71 130 -29%
1998 212 0.000057637 90 122 -15%
1999 260 0.000070387 124 136 -5%
2000 271 0.000071695 99 172 -27%
2001 299 0.000079874 128 171 -14%
2002 292 0.000078111 132 160 -10%
2003 319 0.000083896 174 145 9%
2004 329 0.000086105 165 164 0%
2005 336 0.00008739 176 160 5%
2006 297 0.000075072 141 156 -5%
2007 372 0.000093054 186 186 0%
2008 329 0.000083701 173 156 5%
2009 335 0.000087692 162 173 -3%
2010 312 0.000084422 151 161 -3%
2011 277 0.000075729 121 156 -13%
2012 260 0.000071089 117 143 -10%
2013 195 0.000053488 97 98 -1%
2014 203 0.00005477 93 110 -8%
2015 177 0.000047826 84 93 -5%
2016 170 0.000046338 97 73 14%
2017 121 0.000033835 69 52 14%
2018 123 0.000034984 77 46 25%
2019 145 0.000041776 103 42 42%
2020 109 0.000032629 64 45 17%
2021 102 0.000030107 65 37 27%
2022 102 0.00003015 58 44 14%
2023 77 0.000023254 38 39 -1%
2024 53 0.000015923 35 18 32%

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