Rei

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rei: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rei: Recorded since 2009, its highest recorded position is #2,165, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#2165highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#5730
2016	#3214
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#2286
2020	#3447
2021	#2201
2022	#3533
2023	#4709
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 15 of the 16 years from 2009 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2009–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #3227 among boys in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2009–2024
Highest recorded position: #2165 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rei appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 2009, and has registered 81 births with the name.

Rei across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rei's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3227 (2009)	#2165 (2022)	#2921 (2024)	15 of 16	81 (2009–2024)	10 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#5730 (2015)	#2187 (2018)	#4843 (2024)	10 of 10	74 (2015–2024)	12 (2018)

Rei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rei in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	5	1 of 10	5
2010s	45	9 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	31	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rei appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2165 in England and Wales in 2022.

Rei's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2009 and 2024, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,165, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gurkirat · #2165, 20y
Kahlil · #2165, 10y
Kaziah · #2165, 12y
Keana · #2165, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Kahlil · #2165, 10y
Kaziah · #2165, 12y
Mylan · #2165, 12y
Seven · #2165, 13y

Rei and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rei without appearing here.

Rei moved ahead of

Even Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4608 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #4789.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5730 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3214 and #5785.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2335 and #4810.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Rei

Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2266 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #1935.
Freddie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2201 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #4056.
Jordan Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #3447.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2165 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rei

Rei at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rei across 2 official records

Rei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rei appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Rei and the names beside it

Rei moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rei

Rei at a glance

Rei across 2 official records

Rei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rei appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Rei and the names beside it

Rei moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rei