Rio
Rio is given to both girls and boys: 105 girls and 563 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,877 among girls’ names and #532 among boys’, #938 among all names counting both); 7,812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Rio every year since 2004.
An estimated 7,690 Americans named Rio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rio mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rio is “a male given name.”
/ˈɹioʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rio?
#532 among boys’ names, 2025
Rio rose from #1,577 in 2015 to #532 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.33 per 1,000.
704 babies in 2024, the peak
Rio peaked in 2024, when 704 babies were given it (593 boys, #517 among boys’ names). The 668 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,973 | 103 | #1,577 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,531 | 104 | #1,547 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,628 | 97 | #1,600 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,255 | 100 | #1,586 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,040 | 99 | #1,576 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,970 | 110 | #1,490 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,700 | 77 | #1,882 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,988 | 78 | #1,871 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,205 | 80 | #1,826 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,358 | 67 | #2,005 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,306 | 59 | #2,103 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,605 | 64 | #1,924 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,790 | 49 | #2,222 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,952 | 52 | #2,082 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,299 | 48 | #2,174 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,498 | 62 | #1,774 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,295 | 40 | #2,292 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,954 | 50 | #1,948 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,861 | 42 | #2,118 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,784 | 45 | #1,977 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,716 | 46 | #1,878 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,204 | 39 | #2,109 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,559 | 38 | #2,113 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,759 | 34 | #2,242 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,605 | 42 | #1,883 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,688 | 35 | #2,113 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,473 | 30 | #2,278 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,170 | 30 | #2,121 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,538 | 23 | #2,446 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,854 | 19 | #2,760 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,812 | 19 | #2,683 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,461 | 22 | #2,346 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,636 | 16 | #2,885 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,492 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,372 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 12 | #3,569 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #4,015 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 15 | #2,897 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 11 | #3,555 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,332 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 13 | #3,042 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 13 | #2,910 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 8 | #3,977 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,859 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,887 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,292 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 10 | #3,023 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #4,045 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,458 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,357 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,114 | |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,605 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,835 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,838 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,812 Americans recorded as Rio, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rio, and how old are they?
7,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,812 Americans ever recorded as Rio. The median Rio alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,560 people named Rio (1,792 women and girls, 2,768 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 842 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rio born?
The states with the most babies named Rio are California, New York and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 143 | #316 | 1.8× |
| New York | 63 | #358 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 59 | #593 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 58 | #337 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 23 | #493 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 20 | #509 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 19 | #408 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 18 | #403 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #642 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #636 | 0.3× |
Where Rio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rio is most over-represented in California: since 1920 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,982 babies since 1880, Rio is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 668 of their 840 babies (80%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rio
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rio and names like it
- Compare Rio and RyuBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRio peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rio since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Rio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.