Riley
685
Babies in 2024
-68%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 4.83k
+7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Riley
Riley has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 685 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 68% on a decade earlier.
Riley reached its peak in 2012, when 4,828 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #8 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 14% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 37,992 boys have been officially registered with the name Riley in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 12,807 boys were registered with the name, starting from 2,177 in 2014 and ending at 685 in 2024.