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Rei

boy name · Japanese origin · 1 syllable

Meaning

lovely, dignified (麗, 怜, or 令); pronounced almost exactly like the English name "Ray," since the Japanese ei sound reads as a long English "a"

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Rei peaked in the 2020s.

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