Meaning not yet researched.
Rio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 563 in 2025. Its best rank was #517 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #517 in 2024; #532 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Rio in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#532 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #517.
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Rio: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 563 boys in 2025. Peak: #517 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 593 (2024).
In 2025, 563 US boys were named Rio, making it the 532nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #517 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 593 boys named Rio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #517, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 593. For comparison, it was #1,577 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 105 US girls were named Rio, making it the 1,877th most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #1,820 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 111 girls named Rio in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,679, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #3,974 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rio in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 7,812 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,564 babies named Rio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,541 US boys were named Rio; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 593. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,034 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rio ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #163 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Riya (6,273 babies since 1880), Ria (4,115 babies since 1880) and Rya (1,928 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Riah, Ryia and Riha 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: Riah (661), Ryia (61), Riha (26), Riho (17), Ryou (5).
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 Rio 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 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #163 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #263 | — |
| California | 116 | #316 | #952 |
| Florida | 58 | #337 | #1,360 |
| New York | 50 | #358 | #1,784 |
| Utah | 12 | #403 | — |
| Arizona | 19 | #408 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #433 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #462 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #485 | — |
| Colorado | 12 | #492 | #878 |
| Washington | 15 | #493 | #1,075 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #496 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #500 | — |
| Illinois | 20 | #509 | — |
| Texas | 53 | #593 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #595 | — |
| North Carolina | 15 | #636 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #642 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #656 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #701 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #780 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #781 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #788 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #788 | #1,183 |
| Georgia | 11 | #840 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #907 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #980 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,877 | 563 | #532 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,820 | 593 | #517 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,887 | 514 | #571 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,751 | 530 | #560 |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,679 | 403 | #671 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,047 | 305 | #774 |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,849 | 193 | #1,061 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,382 | 172 | #1,126 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,184 | 132 | #1,358 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,821 | 136 | #1,323 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,974 | 103 | #1,577 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,533 | 104 | #1,547 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,630 | 97 | #1,600 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,256 | 100 | #1,586 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,041 | 99 | #1,576 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,971 | 110 | #1,490 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,701 | 77 | #1,883 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,989 | 78 | #1,871 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,205 | 80 | #1,826 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,359 | 67 | #2,006 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,310 | 59 | #2,107 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,609 | 64 | #1,928 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,793 | 49 | #2,226 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,956 | 52 | #2,086 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,303 | 48 | #2,178 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,503 | 62 | #1,778 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,298 | 40 | #2,295 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,957 | 50 | #1,951 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,864 | 42 | #2,121 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,788 | 45 | #1,981 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,721 | 46 | #1,883 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,209 | 39 | #2,114 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,564 | 38 | #2,118 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,764 | 34 | #2,247 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,611 | 42 | #1,889 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,693 | 35 | #2,118 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,479 | 30 | #2,284 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,175 | 30 | #2,126 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,543 | 23 | #2,450 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,856 | 19 | #2,763 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,813 | 19 | #2,685 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,462 | 22 | #2,347 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,637 | 16 | #2,886 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,494 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,374 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,570 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,017 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,898 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,557 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,334 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,044 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,912 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,979 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,861 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,889 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,294 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #3,024 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,046 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,459 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,837 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,840 |
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).