Rex Boy Name

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The name Rex is of Latin origin, and means king. The table below indicates the number of times the name Rex has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Rex**
Use of the Name Rex for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
52,479	23,261	4,480	953	357	357	175

The table below indicates the number of times the name Rex has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Rex**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	519	13
1881	768	7
1882	537	13
1883	476	15
1884	540	13
1885	456	17
1886	335	26
1887	319	28
1888	351	28
1889	377	23
1890	320	30
1891	358	24
1892	368	28
1893	367	25
1894	330	30
1895	314	34
1896	322	35
1897	337	31
1898	304	39
1899	335	29
1900	269	59
1901	345	29
1902	280	46
1903	291	43
1904	352	33
1905	298	46
1906	256	60
1907	308	48
1908	268	64
1909	273	68
1910	309	65
1911	296	81
1912	281	164
1913	240	244
1914	233	333
1915	241	404
1916	231	458
1917	230	471
1918	234	510
1919	232	522
1920	210	614
1921	226	590
1922	213	618
1923	225	582
1924	228	590
1925	237	554
1926	239	547
1927	248	521
1928	244	519
1929	252	491
1930	235	540
1931	227	520
1932	214	574
1933	193	624
1934	197	631
1935	198	645
1936	201	613
1937	203	599
1938	203	626
1939	214	568
1940	230	541
1941	229	557
1942	252	526
1943	236	608
1944	235	572
1945	272	480
1946	235	662
1947	220	844
1948	210	901
1949	207	953
1950	196	1,068
1951	171	1,496
1952	176	1,495
1953	189	1,336
1954	189	1,377
1955	192	1,394
1956	193	1,446
1957	201	1,338
1958	214	1,238
1959	217	1,281
1960	215	1,308
1961	219	1,270
1962	227	1,131
1963	245	983
1964	247	957
1965	264	789
1966	275	719
1967	306	581
1968	341	512
1969	362	476
1970	362	507
1971	368	474
1972	405	376
1973	431	326
1974	466	294
1975	469	295
1976	467	283
1977	472	290
1978	514	254
1979	525	259
1980	488	299
1981	517	267
1982	524	264
1983	532	246
1984	538	256
1985	542	261
1986	587	229
1987	600	231
1988	592	248
1989	667	224
1990	664	231
1991	685	218
1992	716	208
1993	792	178
1994	824	167
1995	874	156
1996	936	139
1997	903	152
1998	943	149
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003	910	182
2004	947	175
Totals:		52,479		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Rex as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Rex appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 121 times during the last 125 years.

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