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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 15,258 of them was named Rio, which outranked 89.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,833Scottie111
- #1,833Shyla111
- #1,833Zelie111
- #1,844Rio110
- #1,844Dalila110
- #1,844Kynzlee110
- #1,844Lilyann110
- #1,850Blessyn109
- #1,850Cienna109
- #1,850Fatimah109
Tied with 5 names at #1,844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,296 of them was named Rio, which outranked 92.5% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,054Adler194
- #1,054Jessie194
- #1,054Lamar194
- #1,057Rio193
- #1,057Ernest193
- #1,057Justus193
- #1,057Kaisen193
- #1,063Karim192
- #1,063Karsyn192
- #1,063Marley192
Tied with 5 names at #1,057; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.