Rio
#1,872 for girls in 2025, 105 births · #532 for boys in 2025, 563 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 593 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,530since 1920
Rio over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,872 | 105 | #532 | 563 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 | #517 | 593 |
| 2023 | #1,878 | 106 | #571 | 514 |
| 2022 | #1,742 | 119 | #560 | 530 |
| 2021 | #1,676 | 124 | #669 | 403 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #774 | 305 |
| 2019 | #1,844 | 110 | #1,057 | 193 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #1,122 | 172 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #1,348 | 132 |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 | #1,320 | 136 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #1,567 | 103 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #1,536 | 104 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #1,575 | 100 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 | #1,573 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | #1,873 | 77 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 | #1,861 | 78 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #1,811 | 80 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 | #1,994 | 67 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 | #1,768 | 62 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | #2,096 | 42 |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #1,864 | 46 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | #2,091 | 38 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 | #1,867 | 42 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #2,086 | 35 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #2,292 | 22 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,430 | 12 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rio! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rio is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Rhode Island#206 · 1 in 683
- Hawaii#241 · 1 in 685
- New Mexico#324 · 1 in 1,171
- Oregon#385 · 1 in 1,590
- California#395 · 1 in 2,058
Best ever in a state: #139 in District of Columbia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #206 | 5 | 1 in 683 |
| Hawaii | #241 | 5 | 1 in 685 |
| New Mexico | #324 | 6 | 1 in 1,171 |
| Oregon | #385 | 10 | 1 in 1,590 |
| California | #395 | 92 | 1 in 2,058 |
| Colorado | #404 | 14 | 1 in 1,845 |
| Washington | #425 | 17 | 1 in 1,965 |
| Connecticut | #438 | 6 | 1 in 2,329 |
| Iowa | #456 | 7 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Utah | #460 | 9 | 1 in 2,133 |
| New Jersey | #488 | 15 | 1 in 2,704 |
| New York | #517 | 30 | 1 in 2,971 |
| Florida | #542 | 29 | 1 in 3,199 |
| Arizona | #636 | 9 | 1 in 3,625 |
| Michigan | #658 | 11 | 1 in 3,906 |
| Illinois | #684 | 13 | 1 in 4,147 |
| Maryland | #708 | 6 | 1 in 4,158 |
| Texas | #776 | 32 | 1 in 5,348 |
| North Carolina | #808 | 10 | 1 in 5,103 |
| Virginia | #923 | 6 | 1 in 6,518 |
| Pennsylvania | #924 | 8 | 1 in 6,932 |
| Tennessee | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,167 |
| Ohio | #1,233 | 5 | 1 in 10,843 |
| Georgia | #1,301 | 5 | 1 in 10,074 |
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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.
See more about Rio
- 15 spots since 2024 (#517 → #532)
- 242 spots since 2020 (#774 → #532)
- 1,035 spots since 2015 (#1,567 → #532)
- Biggest jump: 283 spots in 2020 (#1,057 → #774)
- Biggest drop: 15 spots in 2025 (#517 → #532)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2024 at #517 (593 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,905 boys born in 2024 were named Rio (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,034 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 52.6% of all boys named Rio (2,908) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,286 (1920) | #4,317 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,965 |
| 1960s | 16 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,267 |
| 1970s | 97 | #2,799 (1978) | #3,623 |
| 1980s | 191 | #2,090 (1988) | #2,875 |
| 1990s | 411 | #1,864 (1995) | #2,045 |
| 2000s | 636 | #1,768 (2000) | #1,972 |
| 2010s | 1,246 | #1,057 (2019) | #1,417 |
| 2020s | 2,908 | #517 (2024) | #604 |
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.
Rio in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,233 of them was named Rio, which outranked 90.5% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 4,341 of them was named Rio, which outranked 95.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).