Rey

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Rey: Recorded since 2005, it reached #415 in 2017, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#415highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#1749
2017	#1512
2018	#1649
2019	#1782
2020	#1449
2021	#1628
2022	#1767
2023	#2201
2024	#2253

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 14 of the 20 years from 2005 to 2024.

In 2017: #415 among boys in Northern Ireland, #2172 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2005–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #3849 among boys in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rey appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 14 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 106 births with the name.

Rey 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.

Rey'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	#3849 (2005)	#1869 (2019)	#2443 (2024)	14 of 20	106 (2005–2024)	12 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#1749 (2016)	#1449 (2020)	#2253 (2024)	9 of 9	151 (2016–2024)	21 (2017)

Rey 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 Rey in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	57	8 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	46	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

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

Rey appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Rey'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2005 and 2024, ranked in 14 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #415, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

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 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Revan · #2693, 10y
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Reyaan · #1455, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Larson · #415, 14y
Loghan · #415, 12y
Oaklen · #414, 10y
Abaigh · #413, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Aironas · #415, 11y
Augustas · #415, 18y
Larson · #415, 14y
Loghan · #415, 12y

Rey was ranked #415 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rey 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 Rey without appearing here.

Rey moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Nicola Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2556 and #4810.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2707 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2556 and #4810.
Tor Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #2693 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1869 and #3937.

Moved ahead of Rey

Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1767 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #1469.
Judith Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1767 and #2178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #1640.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #1743.
Bernadette Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1767 and #2178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #1774.

Moved the opposite way to Rey

Ole Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Rey went from #3849 to #2018 while Ole went from #2754 to #4789.
Tor Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Rey went from #3849 to #2018 while Tor went from #1851 to #3449.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #415 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rey

Rey at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rey across 2 official records

Rey by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Rey across 2 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Rey and the names beside it

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