Riley
Alternative forms & variants: Rylee, Ryleigh
“Courageous, valiant; also rye clearing in Old English”
Linguistic heritage: Irish / Old English
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Annual recorded US births from 1880 to 2025 (US Social Security Administration)
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Meanings cross-referenced with Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Nurturepedia (MIT). Phonetics audited against the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD).