Reco
#13,448 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reco has been given to 1,202 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #13,448 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Reco, 2025
1 in 663,000
Reco over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Reco?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,448
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reco sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Recos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reco was born before 1982 — so the typical Reco is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,202
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (411).
Is Reco rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 7.6%
- Peak was 1976 (66)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.9% average annual change
Spellings of Reco
Reco is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 36.7% against Reco's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Reco is used
Across 1910–2025, Reco was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 155,235 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Louisiana1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Reco has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reco around the world
Where Reco ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2018#4,749in 2018
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Reco by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Reco
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reco
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.