Rei
- #5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
- Given to girls 53.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 48 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 550since 1974
Rei over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #3,793 | 29 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,245 | 33 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
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First appearance
1974
The first year at least five girls were named Rei! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rei is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
Best ever in a state: #1,416 in Pennsylvania, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 345 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #5,238)
- 2,017 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #5,238)
- 3,209 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #5,238)
Rise & fade · girls
46 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2020 at #3,221 (48 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,678
- Highest: 1 in 33,678 girls born in 2020 were named Rei (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 39.5% of all girls named Rei (217) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 20 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,583 |
| 1990s | 27 | #9,479 (1999) | #11,151 |
| 2000s | 101 | #7,580 (2003) | #9,699 |
| 2010s | 217 | #3,769 (2017) | #7,337 |
| 2020s | 180 | #3,221 (2020) | #4,711 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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