Is Riley a male or female name?
Riley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 57% and male usage in England and Wales at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 52%
- Sample size
- 312,967
- Confidence
- high
Riley by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 57% | 240,644 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 93% | 46,086 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 69% | 23,276 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 71% | 1,475 | insee |
| Ireland IE | male | 70% | 1,181 | cso |
| Switzerland CH | female | 55% | 206 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 67% | 55 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 57% | 44 | statat |
Attested in 12 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · FR · GB · IE · NZ · PL · SE · US
Look up Riley with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Riley
Is Riley a male or female name?
Riley is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 57% and male usage in England and Wales at 93%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Riley change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Riley identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.