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The first name 
Rilee

Rilee is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.

Rilee is a well-known but special name!

Rilee is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,728 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,727 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rilee.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rilee

Rilee -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Rilee did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Rilee seemed to be more popular than ever in 2008. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,168, 204 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Rilee, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Rilee was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Rilee in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Rilee a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,738 - with a total of 53 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Rilee -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Rilee, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to women and girls named Rilee. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Rilee living in one state or another. If your name is Rilee and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Rilee relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,697 women and girls their names before you hear Rilee as an answer just once.

Rilee has 5 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Rilee is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
R, i, l, e and e

If you take all the letters in the name Rilee – R, i, l, e and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Leire or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rilee

If your name is Rilee and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Rilee

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rilee, you can simply say:

Rocket

Igloo

Lion

Elephant

Elephant

This is how the name Rilee is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rilee in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rilee

Rilee

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rilee

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rilee is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
I
L
E
E

Have you ever waved the name Rilee

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
I
L
E
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rilee sounds like this: