Riley-James
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning rye clearing with james; compound name.
Babies a year
13
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1897
13 babies
Riley-James by the numbers
In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Riley-James.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Riley-James. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- River-James3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Riley-Jaycourageous one; a compound form4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rory-James3 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Riley-James, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Riley-James
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