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The first name 
Rylee

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

Rylee – known and loved in the US!

The name Rylee isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Rylee ranks 101. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 18 were named Rylee. In the entire USA, approximately 65,035 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rylee. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

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

What does the name 
Rylee mean?

The name Rylee is of English origin and is believed to be a variant of the name Riley, which is derived from Old English meaning ‘rye clearing’ or ‘rye meadow’. It is composed of two words ‘rye’ meaning a type of grass and ‘leah’ meaning ‘clearing’ or ‘meadow’.

What is rye? Rye is a type of cereal grain that is closely related to wheat and barley. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant crop that can be grown in a variety of different climates and soil conditions.

Rylee -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Rylee may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Rylee is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 690 women in Utah is called Rylee. In total, that’s 1,693 women who feel addressed when the name Rylee is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #182 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Rylee as the answer a total of 61,471 times. This places Rylee at #452 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Rylee as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Rylee 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 Rylee 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, y, l, e and e

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rylee

If your name is Rylee 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 Rylee

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

Rocket

Yoyo

Lion

Elephant

Elephant

This is how the name Rylee 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 Rylee in Braille?

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

Rylee

Rylee

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
Y
L
E
E

Have you ever waved the name Rylee

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
Y
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. Rylee sounds like this: