Rio
#1,872 for girls in 2025, 105 births · #532 for boys in 2025, 563 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 593 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,530since 1920
Rio over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,872 | 105 | #532 | 563 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 | #517 | 593 |
| 2023 | #1,878 | 106 | #571 | 514 |
| 2022 | #1,742 | 119 | #560 | 530 |
| 2021 | #1,676 | 124 | #669 | 403 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #774 | 305 |
| 2019 | #1,844 | 110 | #1,057 | 193 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #1,122 | 172 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #1,348 | 132 |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 | #1,320 | 136 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #1,567 | 103 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #1,536 | 104 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #1,575 | 100 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 | #1,573 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | #1,873 | 77 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 | #1,861 | 78 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #1,811 | 80 |
| 2006 | #3,316 | 49 | #1,994 | 67 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #2,771 | 56 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 | #1,768 | 62 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | #2,096 | 42 |
| 1996 | #2,760 | 44 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #1,864 | 46 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | #2,091 | 38 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 | #1,867 | 42 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #2,086 | 35 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #2,292 | 22 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,430 | 12 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,799 | 13 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rio! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rio
- 15 spots since 2024 (#517 → #532)
- 242 spots since 2020 (#774 → #532)
- 1,035 spots since 2015 (#1,567 → #532)
- Biggest jump: 283 spots in 2020 (#1,057 → #774)
- Biggest drop: 15 spots in 2025 (#517 → #532)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2024 at #517 (593 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,905 boys born in 2024 were named Rio (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,034 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 52.6% of all boys named Rio (2,908) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,286 (1920) | #4,317 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,965 |
| 1960s | 16 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,267 |
| 1970s | 97 | #2,799 (1978) | #3,623 |
| 1980s | 191 | #2,090 (1988) | #2,875 |
| 1990s | 411 | #1,864 (1995) | #2,045 |
| 2000s | 636 | #1,768 (2000) | #1,972 |
| 2010s | 1,246 | #1,057 (2019) | #1,417 |
| 2020s | 2,908 | #517 (2024) | #604 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rio in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 212,871 of them was named Rio, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 703 names at #4,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.