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How popular is the name Rio?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rios are alive today.
Rio (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 166th in 2025 with 305 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2011, when 359 babies were given the name, the 160th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2023, with 338 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 267 in 2015 before climbing back to the 166th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 6,800 babies have been named Rio in England and Wales since 1996. Rio is one spelling of a name also recorded as Reo; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Rio you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old - or else around 3: the name has two living generations. Half of all Rios born in England and Wales are between 6 and 19, and there are at least 7,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Rio.
How many babies are named Rio each year?
Includes all spellings: Rio, Reo. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Rio spelling rank?
Where does the Reo spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rio most popular?
Rio peaked in 2011, when 381 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Rio?
At least 7,300 people named Rio in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rio?
Most living Rios are between 6 and 19; the most common age is about 18. There is a second cluster around 3.
Is Rio becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.