Rey
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · #906 for boys in 2025, 262 births
Given to boys 94.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 314 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,696since 1915
Rey over time
girlsboys
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 | #906 | 262 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #822 | 304 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #792 | 318 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | #788 | 320 |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 | #764 | 328 |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 | #879 | 257 |
| 2019 | #3,611 | 42 | #799 | 287 |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 | #751 | 314 |
| 2017 | #2,384 | 76 | #773 | 303 |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 | #870 | 257 |
| 2015 | — | #897 | 242 | |
| 2014 | — | #884 | 245 | |
| 2013 | — | #907 | 229 | |
| 2012 | — | #920 | 225 | |
| 2011 | — | #937 | 212 | |
| 2010 | — | #851 | 249 | |
| 2009 | — | #896 | 232 | |
| 2008 | — | #861 | 247 | |
| 2007 | — | #919 | 215 | |
| 2006 | — | #851 | 236 | |
| 2005 | — | #902 | 199 | |
| 2004 | — | #981 | 170 | |
| 2003 | — | #946 | 173 | |
| 2002 | — | #910 | 177 | |
| 2001 | — | #987 | 155 | |
| 2000 | — | #983 | 151 | |
| 1999 | — | #966 | 149 | |
| 1998 | — | #999 | 137 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,058 | 120 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,030 | 119 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,053 | 113 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,128 | 101 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,060 | 109 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,162 | 90 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,017 | 112 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,072 | 98 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,197 | 80 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,130 | 78 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,188 | 66 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,075 | 75 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,116 | 69 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,166 | 61 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,166 | 60 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,278 | 53 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,077 | 71 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,391 | 46 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,177 | 59 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,272 | 50 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,289 | 48 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,190 | 52 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,191 | 50 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,135 | 52 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,223 | 46 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,120 | 53 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,150 | 51 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,238 | 45 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,152 | 46 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,181 | 40 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,510 | 26 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,254 | 37 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,059 | 51 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,012 | 56 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,137 | 46 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,108 | 50 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,045 | 54 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,101 | 49 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,186 | 42 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,388 | 32 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,362 | 32 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,396 | 30 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,668 | 21 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,427 | 28 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,547 | 24 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,725 | 19 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,657 | 20 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,583 | 22 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,817 | 17 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,692 | 18 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,697 | 16 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,910 | 15 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,145 | 12 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,179 | 11 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,818 | 15 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,332 | 10 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,997 | 13 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,003 | 14 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,162 | 14 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,177 | 7 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five boys were named Rey! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1936, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rey is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Arizona#431 · 1 in 2,662
- Texas#463 · 1 in 3,215
- Nevada#469 · 1 in 2,871
- California#537 · 1 in 4,324
- North Carolina#667 · 1 in 4,894
Best ever in a state: #309 in New Mexico, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #431 | 15 | 1 in 2,662 |
| Texas | #463 | 58 | 1 in 3,215 |
| Nevada | #469 | 5 | 1 in 2,871 |
| California | #537 | 56 | 1 in 4,324 |
| North Carolina | #667 | 11 | 1 in 4,894 |
| Colorado | #743 | 5 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Georgia | #862 | 9 | 1 in 6,558 |
| Illinois | #873 | 10 | 1 in 7,255 |
| Florida | #942 | 12 | 1 in 7,941 |
| New Jersey | #973 | 5 | 1 in 8,923 |
| New York | #1,809 | 5 | 1 in 21,542 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 · boys
Holding steady
- 84 spots since 2024 (#822 → #906)
- 27 spots since 2020 (#879 → #906)
- 9 spots since 2015 (#897 → #906)
- Biggest jump: 115 spots in 2021 (#879 → #764)
- Biggest drop: 86 spots in 2011 (#851 → #937)
Rise & fade · boys
103 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2018 at #751 (314 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 28 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,334
- Highest: 1 in 5,334 boys born in 2021 were named Rey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,519 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #751 in 2018, was only 1 in 5,784 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 26.4% of all boys named Rey (2,563) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #3,177 (1916) | #3,866 |
| 1920s | 82 | #2,162 (1928) | #3,286 |
| 1930s | 95 | #1,818 (1938) | #2,452 |
| 1940s | 134 | #1,583 (1949) | #2,139 |
| 1950s | 297 | #1,101 (1959) | #1,446 |
| 1960s | 441 | #1,012 (1963) | #1,174 |
| 1970s | 506 | #1,120 (1972) | #1,199 |
| 1980s | 659 | #1,075 (1986) | #1,178 |
| 1990s | 1,148 | #966 (1999) | #1,055 |
| 2000s | 1,955 | #851 (2006) | #924 |
| 2010s | 2,563 | #751 (2018) | #859 |
| 2020s | 1,789 | #764 (2021) | #825 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rey in 2009
boys
#896
232 births · 1 in 8,550 boys
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 8,550 of them was named Rey, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).