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 | ||
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| 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 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#313 · 1 in 1,110
- Colorado#315 · 1 in 1,273
- Oregon#325 · 1 in 1,274
- California#340 · 1 in 1,659
- Arizona#394 · 1 in 1,718
Best ever in a state: #139 in District of Columbia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #313 | 6 | 1 in 1,110 |
| Colorado | #315 | 20 | 1 in 1,273 |
| Oregon | #325 | 12 | 1 in 1,274 |
| California | #340 | 114 | 1 in 1,659 |
| Arizona | #394 | 19 | 1 in 1,718 |
| Nevada | #430 | 6 | 1 in 1,936 |
| New Jersey | #443 | 17 | 1 in 2,395 |
| Washington | #446 | 16 | 1 in 2,077 |
| New York | #448 | 36 | 1 in 2,422 |
| Ohio | #450 | 23 | 1 in 2,309 |
| Wisconsin | #462 | 10 | 1 in 2,366 |
| Florida | #466 | 37 | 1 in 2,577 |
| Utah | #470 | 9 | 1 in 2,104 |
| Virginia | #545 | 13 | 1 in 2,953 |
| Illinois | #573 | 17 | 1 in 3,045 |
| Pennsylvania | #600 | 15 | 1 in 3,569 |
| Michigan | #620 | 12 | 1 in 3,458 |
| Texas | #633 | 47 | 1 in 3,802 |
| Missouri | #642 | 8 | 1 in 3,497 |
| Maryland | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,550 |
| Tennessee | #691 | 9 | 1 in 3,990 |
| North Carolina | #764 | 11 | 1 in 4,633 |
| Indiana | #770 | 7 | 1 in 4,604 |
| Minnesota | #828 | 5 | 1 in 4,986 |
| Georgia | #1,106 | 7 | 1 in 7,319 |
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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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 13,783 of them was named Rio, which outranked 90.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,731Louella120
- #1,731Nyah120
- #1,731Tamara120
- #1,742Rio119
- #1,742Arlene119
- #1,742Belinda119
- #1,742Blakeleigh119
- #1,754Addelyn118
- #1,754Alaysia118
- #1,754Amerie118
Tied with 11 names at #1,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 3,294 of them was named Rio, which outranked 96.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.