girls:
671 births since 1921
#5045 (12th percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1975
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
690 births since 1921
#7049 (9th percentile)
The name Reiko is the #7,049 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 690 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 8.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,045 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 671 births since 1921. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1975.
Reiko first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Reiko is available in 79 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (79 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Reiko has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Reiko reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #735) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Reiko ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 34.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Reiko reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Reiko".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Reiko is pronounced as RAY-koh, which has 2 syllables.
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