Rey

Where Rey comes from

Rey hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,825 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Rey Vargas born
    Mexican professional boxer
  3. 1997
    Rey Manaj born
    Albanian association football player
  4. 2018
    Peak, #751
    314 babies named Rey — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rey Manaj · Albanian association football player, born 1997
  • Rey Vargas · Mexican professional boxer, born 1990
  • Rey Chow · cultural critic, born 1957
  • Rey Ruiz · Cuban musician, born 1966
  • Rey Ángel Martínez · Cuban footballer, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.