Rico

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rico: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #475, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#475highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#898
1997	#1010
1998	#958
1999	#1383
2000	#817
2001	#617
2002	#633
2003	#565
2004	#586
2005	#525
2006	#596
2007	#731
2008	#544
2009	#596
2010	#660
2011	#528
2012	#542
2013	#486
2014	#544
2015	#557
2016	#515
2017	#501
2018	#502
2019	#549
2020	#723
2021	#738
2022	#665
2023	#672
2024	#475

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #475 among boys in England and Wales, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #898 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #475 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #475 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Rico appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,447 births with the name.

Rico 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.

Rico'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	#898 (1996)	#475 (2024)	#475 (2024)	29 of 29	1,447 (1996–2024)	84 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#715 (2014)	#520 (2024)	#520 (2024)	5 of 11	23 (2014–2024)	6 (2024)

Rico 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 Rico in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	54	4 of 10	14
2000s	415	10 of 10	42
2010sbusiest	699	10 of 10	70
2020s	279	5 of 10	56

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 70 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 32, from 52 to 84.

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

Rico 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #475 in England and Wales in 2024.

Rico'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	male	#475	84	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#672	52	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#665	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#738	46	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#723	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#549	69	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#502	78	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#501	79	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#515	78	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#557	68	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#544	67	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#486	79	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#542	67	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#528	66	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#660	48	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#596	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#544	61	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#731	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#596	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#525	51	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#586	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#565	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#633	31	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#617	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #475, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 84 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 18 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.

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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.

Roxana · #475, 29y
Amarachi · #476, 28y
Marika · #474, 30y
Oluwatamilore · #476, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Roxana · #475, 29y
Alya · #476, 29y
Amarachi · #476, 28y
Marika · #474, 30y

Rico was ranked #475 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Rico 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 Rico without appearing here.

Rico moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #817 and #2501.
Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #633 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #565 and #1132.
Darragh Compare
In 2007 they stood at #731 and #651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #544 and #943.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2000 they stood at #817 and #773 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #617 and #983.

Moved ahead of Rico

Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #544 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #596 and #311.
Oskar Compare
In 1996 they stood at #898 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #759.
Cooper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #596 and #677 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #731 and #509.
Lachlan Compare
In 2014 they stood at #544 and #558 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #557 and #363.

Moved the opposite way to Rico

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Rico

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rico went from #898 to #475 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #475 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rico

Rico at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rico across 2 official records

Rico by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rico appears in

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Rico at a glance

Rico across 2 official records

Rico by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rico and the names beside it

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