Boy Names Starting With R — Top 50 of 2025

Top boy names starting with R in 2025, with overall SSA rank and birth count
Rank	Name	Babies
#42	Roman	6,162
#59	Rowan	5,212
#92	Robert	3,772
#99	Ryan	3,532
#111	River	3,139
#133	Ryder	2,710
#183	Ryker	2,003
#188	Rhett	1,936
#199	Rory	1,768
#208	Riley	1,666
#218	Rafael	1,639
#234	Richard	1,505
#247	Ronan	1,406
#293	Reid	1,150
#302	Romeo	1,129
#307	Remington	1,105
#345	Russell	944
#380	Ricardo	833
#394	Raphael	807
#395	Raymond	807
#408	Remy	781
#412	Rhys	778
#416	Rylan	771
#419	Reed	770
#432	Raiden	739
#452	Rome	694
#459	Rocco	679
#460	Reece	675
#476	Royal	640
#480	Ruben	632
#488	Rowen	617
#492	Rodrigo	614
#500	Royce	606
#504	Ronin	600
#525	Roy	570
#530	Ridge	566
#532	Rio	563
#568	Rocky	520
#570	Roberto	519
#575	Rhodes	511
#588	Rayan	499
#603	Reese	475
#608	Roland	466
#634	Raul	440
#638	Ronald	438
#705	Robin	382
#706	Ryland	382
#715	Ryatt	376
#739	Rudy	354
#772	Reign	333

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin R boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

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Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.