Baby Names That Start With R
Girls' and boys' names beginning with R, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with R, 2025
- 4.4%
- vs 3.1% in 2000
- Girls' R names in use
- 872
- 3,168 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1919
- at 6.0% of names
- Boys with R, 2025
- 4.9%
- vs 4.7% in 2000
- Boys' R names in use
- 791
- 2,411 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1946
- at 15.7% of names
How R has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with R, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,772#92 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 1,505#234 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1946 | |||
| 438#638 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,532#99 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 1,781#173 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 807#395 | Down 84 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 872#350 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 1,225#250 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 2,386#114 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 570#525 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,554#64 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 944#345 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 400#704 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 786#395 | Up 37 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 441#653 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 1,222#251 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 833#380 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 4,441#48 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 632#480 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 519#570 | Down 133 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 1,666#208 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 6,162#42 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 466#608 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 1,639#218 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 440#634 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,088#283 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 1,797#171 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1938 | |||
| 302#884 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 373#733 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 2,118#137 | Down 35 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,710#133 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,244#248 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 5,212#59 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 354#739 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 382#705 | Up 169 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 771#404 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 1,631#192 | Down 46 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 2,003#183 | Down 35 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,150#293 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 3,139#111 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 1,936#188 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 770#419 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,768#199 | Up 131 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 891#344 | Down 185 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,326#116 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 771#416 | Down 89 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 606#500 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 679#459 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 520#568 | Up 292 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 614#492 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 393#715 | Down 264 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,129#302 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 589#506 | Down 246 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 807#394 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,105#307 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 644#478 | Down 125 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 2,023#145 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 349#781 | Up 473 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 1,240#249 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 675#460 | Up 131 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,406#247 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 640#476 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 452#639 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,401#220 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 475#603 | Up 130 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 493#594 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 592#502 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 635#481 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 778#412 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 510#582 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,332#230 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 342#796 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 382#706 | Down 185 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 270#954 | Down 166 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 739#432 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 781#408 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 287#916 | Down 104 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 481#609 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 600#504 | Down 114 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 580#513 | Down 152 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 464#629 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 499#588 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 390#721 | Down 225 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 617#488 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 293#906 | Down 138 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 831#369 | Up 564 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 682#452 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 566#530 | Up 99 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 569#531 | Up 137 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 347#782 | Down 390 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 417#681 | Up 366 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 694#452 | Up 519 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 563#532 | Up 242 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 333#772 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 407#699 | Up 494 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 407#698 | Up 809 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 511#575 | Up 820 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 376#715 | Up 367 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 333#818 | Up 1,258 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 359#755 | Up 2,421 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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R names climbing fastest
Biggest R names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
R names climbing fastest
Biggest R names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.