Rey is a Spanish male name and a short form of Reynaldo. This name has its origins in the Germanic Raginald meaning ‘ruler’s counselor’. The Spanish word ‘rey’ also means ‘king’, it is related to Latin ‘rex’.
Rey is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Rey isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Rey ranks 771. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Rey. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rey.
Rey is a Spanish male name and a short form of Reynaldo. This name has its origins in the Germanic Raginald meaning ‘ruler’s counselor’. The Spanish word ‘rey’ also means ‘king’, it is related to Latin ‘rex’.
In the US,... Rey began to be used for girls after the release of the Star Wars film 'The Force Awakens' in 2015.
You may not know anyone named Rey, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to men and boys named Rey. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Rey living in one state or another. If your name is Rey and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Texas, which has the most people named Rey relative to the population, you still have to ask 5,462 men and boys their names before you hear Rey as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With only three letters, the name Rey is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rey, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rey
Rey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
E
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rey sounds like this:
