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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Rio” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rio” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rio” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rio” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rio” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rio” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rio” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rio” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 32 0.00000924 16 16 0%
1984 35 0.000010032 13 22 -26%
1985 41 0.000011487 22 19 7%
1986 41 0.000011526 22 19 7%
1987 37 0.000010262 14 23 -24%
1988 43 0.000011637 13 30 -40%
1989 51 0.000013266 21 30 -18%
1990 64 0.000016192 29 35 -9%
1991 89 0.000022848 47 42 6%
1992 78 0.000020306 44 34 13%
1993 87 0.000023075 49 38 13%
1994 75 0.000020174 36 39 -4%
1995 91 0.000024849 45 46 -1%
1996 89 0.000024402 44 45 -1%
1997 85 0.000023443 43 42 1%
1998 94 0.000025556 44 50 -6%
1999 79 0.000021387 39 40 -1%
2000 100 0.000026456 38 62 -24%
2001 90 0.000024042 42 48 -7%
2002 85 0.000022738 33 52 -22%
2003 105 0.000027615 56 49 7%
2004 105 0.00002748 41 64 -22%
2005 106 0.000027569 47 59 -11%
2006 116 0.000029321 49 67 -16%
2007 134 0.000033519 54 80 -19%
2008 137 0.000034854 59 78 -14%
2009 145 0.000037956 68 77 -6%
2010 168 0.000045458 58 110 -31%
2011 155 0.000042375 56 99 -28%
2012 151 0.000041287 51 100 -32%
2013 140 0.000038402 43 97 -39%
2014 149 0.000040201 45 104 -40%
2015 141 0.000038099 38 103 -46%
2016 196 0.000053425 61 135 -38%
2017 183 0.000051172 51 132 -44%
2018 249 0.000070821 77 172 -38%
2019 303 0.000087296 110 193 -27%
2020 396 0.000118542 91 305 -54%
2021 525 0.000154961 124 401 -53%
2022 649 0.000191834 119 530 -63%
2023 620 0.000187244 106 514 -66%
2024 702 0.000210906 111 591 -68%

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