Meaning not yet researched.
Rei: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,363 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 59% of babies named Rei in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,363 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rei: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,363 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 35 (2025).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Rei, making it the 3,363rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 511 places from #3,874 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 29 boys named Rei in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,363, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 35. For comparison, it was #4,673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Rei, making it the 5,364th most common girls’ name of the year, down 367 places from #4,997 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 27 girls named Rei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,269, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #8,844 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rei in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 1,028 US babies have been given the name, 54% of them girls and 46% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 384 babies named Rei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US boys were named Rei; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Rio (7,812 babies since 1880), Ria (4,115 babies since 1880) and Reya (2,939 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reigh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reigh (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rei in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,364 | 35 | #3,363 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,997 | 29 | #3,874 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,968 | 19 | #5,203 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,940 | 19 | #5,175 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,304 | 34 | #3,404 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,269 | 16 | #5,643 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,985 | 30 | #3,698 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,328 | 28 | #3,865 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,829 | 22 | #4,565 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,098 | 14 | #6,277 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,844 | 21 | #4,673 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,627 | 9 | #8,639 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,107 | 6 | #11,841 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,718 | 8 | #9,514 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,297 | 14 | #6,182 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,618 | 15 | #5,972 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,232 | 13 | #6,728 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,425 | 21 | #4,670 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,436 | 14 | #6,195 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,345 | 8 | #9,372 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,756 | 8 | #8,925 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,612 | 13 | #6,066 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,909 | 16 | #4,990 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,710 | 12 | #5,996 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,168 | 8 | #8,149 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,719 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,142 | 9 | #6,971 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,196 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,939 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,994 | — | — |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,508 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,831 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,080 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,558 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,092 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,916 | 5 | #7,873 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,820 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).