Meaning not yet researched.
Rey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 262 in 2025. Its best rank was #755 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #755 in 2018; #908 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Rey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#908 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #755.
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Rey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 262 boys in 2025. Peak: #755 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 328 (2021).
In 2025, 262 US boys were named Rey, making it the 908th most common boys’ name of the year, down 85 places from #823 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 304 boys named Rey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #755, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 328, in 2021. For comparison, it was #900 in 2015 and #1,693 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rey in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 10,222 US babies have been given the name, 5.1% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,810 babies named Rey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,950 US boys were named Rey; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,519 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rey ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #458 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ray (210,307 babies since 1880), Rio (7,812 babies since 1880), Riya (6,273 babies since 1880) and Ria (4,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rea, Reo and Ryo 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rea (2,063), Reo (862), Ryo (827), Ry (417), Reah (374), Ree (305), Reyah (300), Reia (276), Reeya (261), Reha (131), Reiya (90), Rie (84), and more.
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 Rey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #458 | #540 |
| California | 67 | #478 | #495 |
| Arizona | 10 | #666 | #515 |
| Washington | 9 | #721 | #917 |
| Colorado | 5 | #934 | #874 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,007 | #969 |
| New York | 11 | #1,100 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,114 | #965 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,179 | #957 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,195 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,434 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,365 | 262 | #908 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,114 | 304 | #823 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,535 | 318 | #792 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,114 | 320 | #790 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,635 | 328 | #764 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,148 | 257 | #880 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,656 | 287 | #801 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,641 | 314 | #755 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,397 | 303 | #773 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,758 | 257 | #870 |
| 2015 | — | — | 242 | #900 |
| 2014 | — | — | 245 | #886 |
| 2013 | — | — | 229 | #910 |
| 2012 | — | — | 225 | #921 |
| 2011 | — | — | 212 | #940 |
| 2010 | — | — | 249 | #852 |
| 2009 | — | — | 232 | #897 |
| 2008 | — | — | 247 | #863 |
| 2007 | — | — | 215 | #923 |
| 2006 | — | — | 236 | #855 |
| 2005 | — | — | 199 | #903 |
| 2004 | — | — | 170 | #984 |
| 2003 | — | — | 173 | #950 |
| 2002 | — | — | 177 | #912 |
| 2001 | — | — | 155 | #990 |
| 2000 | — | — | 151 | #985 |
| 1999 | — | — | 149 | #971 |
| 1998 | — | — | 137 | #1,003 |
| 1997 | — | — | 120 | #1,059 |
| 1996 | — | — | 119 | #1,036 |
| 1995 | — | — | 113 | #1,061 |
| 1994 | — | — | 101 | #1,133 |
| 1993 | — | — | 109 | #1,069 |
| 1992 | — | — | 90 | #1,176 |
| 1991 | — | — | 112 | #1,023 |
| 1990 | — | — | 98 | #1,082 |
| 1989 | — | — | 80 | #1,203 |
| 1988 | — | — | 78 | #1,142 |
| 1987 | — | — | 66 | #1,192 |
| 1986 | — | — | 75 | #1,085 |
| 1985 | — | — | 69 | #1,123 |
| 1984 | — | — | 61 | #1,172 |
| 1983 | — | — | 60 | #1,177 |
| 1982 | — | — | 53 | #1,289 |
| 1981 | — | — | 71 | #1,083 |
| 1980 | — | — | 46 | #1,406 |
| 1979 | — | — | 59 | #1,189 |
| 1978 | — | — | 50 | #1,281 |
| 1977 | — | — | 48 | #1,310 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,208 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,203 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,148 |
| 1973 | — | — | 46 | #1,229 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,127 |
| 1971 | — | — | 51 | #1,156 |
| 1970 | — | — | 45 | #1,249 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,162 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,309 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,196 |
| 1966 | — | — | 26 | #1,536 |
| 1965 | — | — | 37 | #1,268 |
| 1964 | — | — | 51 | #1,069 |
| 1963 | — | — | 56 | #1,015 |
| 1962 | — | — | 46 | #1,143 |
| 1961 | — | — | 50 | #1,119 |
| 1960 | — | — | 54 | #1,056 |
| 1959 | — | — | 49 | #1,114 |
| 1958 | — | — | 42 | #1,201 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,406 |
| 1956 | — | — | 32 | #1,378 |
| 1955 | — | — | 30 | #1,414 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,695 |
| 1953 | — | — | 28 | #1,451 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,577 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,763 |
| 1950 | — | — | 20 | #1,693 |
| 1949 | — | — | 22 | #1,602 |
| 1948 | — | — | 17 | #1,870 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,053 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,746 |
| 1945 | — | — | 16 | #1,752 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,819 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,975 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,237 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,084 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,291 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,417 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,881 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,445 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,897 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,529 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,076 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,169 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,082 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,924 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,246 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,390 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,095 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,102 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,255 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,740 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,831 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,848 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,434 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,678 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,683 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,458 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,448 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,291 |
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).