Baby name

Rey

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5% girls / 95% boys

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Classic name

2021 was its best year: 328 births, or 1 baby in 10,335. It has stood the test of time: births were recorded in 110 of the 146 years since 1880. Its rank in 2025: No. 906.

9,696births since 1880

2020sgeneration

No. 764rank at its peak, in 2021

Where babies named Rey are born

2021

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The darker the blue, the more common Rey is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Rey is most common in Texas (4.1 times), Arizona (3.6) and California (2.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Roy 408,638
Ray 204,701
Rex 60,449
Trey 40,476
Remy 12,484
Grey 6,056

Names from the same era

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1910s	0%	100%
1920s	0%	100%
1930s	0%	100%
1940s	0%	100%
1950s	0%	100%
1960s	0%	100%
1970s	0%	100%
1980s	0%	100%
1990s	0%	100%
2000s	0%	100%
2010s	9%	91%
2020s	13%	87%