Rey — #822 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rey

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,431 babies named Rey between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rey currently holds the #822 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 328 babies received it in a single year. Rey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 502 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,562 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Rey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,370 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Rey in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,431 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.