Reo
#7,098 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reo has been given to 862 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #7,098 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Reo, 2025
1 in 276,000
Reo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Reo?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,098
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reo 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reo was born before 1980 — so the typical Reo is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 14.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 523
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (119).
Is Reo 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
- −980
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −154
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,288
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.50×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 1917 (18)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.3% average annual change
Where Reo is used
Across 1910–2025, Reo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Reo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reo around the world
Where Reo 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 & Wales1997–2025#1,153in 2025
- Scotland2010–2025#178in 2025
- Northern Ireland2023–2024#404in 2024
- Canada2009–2009#2,692in 2009
- South Australia1950–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Reo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Reo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.