Rex Forename
5,076th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 205,319 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Nauru
Rex Forename Definition:
A male name. Latin rex ‘king'. Its use as a christian name is modern and was not known to Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884.
Rex Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 73,286 | 1:4,947 | 712 |
| Philippines | 99% | 66,849 | 1:1,586 | 327 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 10,112 | 1:806 | 92 |
| New Zealand | - | 6,384 | 1:711 | 167 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 5,653 | 1:5,451 | 867 |
| Malawi | 99% | 5,330 | 1:3,211 | 546 |
| England | 100% | 4,920 | 1:11,301 | 856 |
| Australia | - | 4,773 | 1:2,861 | 478 |
| Ghana | 100% | 4,720 | 1:5,717 | 689 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 3,704 | 1:47,939 | 3,563 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,648 | 1:12,513 | 1,349 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,504 | 1:8,306 | 1,305 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 1,331 | 1:436 | 83 |
| Zambia | - | 1,330 | 1:11,921 | 1,241 |
| India | 100% | 1,019 | 1:1,192,226 | 73,724 |
| China | - | 932 | 1:1,465,725 | 39,080 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 863 | 1:85,548 | 4,761 |
| Bangladesh | - | 825 | 1:193,287 | 10,074 |
| South Africa | 99% | 799 | 1:68,251 | 6,339 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 624 | 1:24,718 | 2,604 |
| Hong Kong | - | 394 | 1:19,677 | 2,074 |
| Indonesia | - | 394 | 1:654,730 | 45,694 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 377 | 1:44,833 | 3,187 |
| Fiji | - | 374 | 1:2,386 | 670 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 336 | 1:70,743 | 9,519 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 309 | 1:69,937 | 4,120 |
| Poland | 100% | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Kenya | - | 267 | 1:173,435 | 7,423 |
| Vanuatu | - | 265 | 1:988 | 288 |
| Malaysia | 95% | 256 | 1:118,945 | 7,978 |
| Germany | 100% | 210 | 1:460,371 | 5,044 |
| Qatar | 100% | 207 | 1:11,447 | 1,810 |
| Congo | 86% | 152 | 1:32,955 | 2,860 |
| Egypt | 100% | 152 | 1:604,611 | 14,932 |
| Wales | 100% | 134 | 1:23,092 | 1,200 |
| Bahrain | - | 133 | 1:10,140 | 1,551 |
| Botswana | 100% | 132 | 1:16,549 | 2,115 |
| Singapore | 100% | 121 | 1:51,959 | 6,722 |
| Jamaica | - | 114 | 1:25,291 | 1,877 |
| Russia | 91% | 93 | 1:1,550,900 | 11,415 |
| Chile | 69% | 90 | 1:195,636 | 3,643 |
| Japan | - | 89 | 1:1,438,046 | 17,360 |
| Mexico | 100% | 84 | 1:1,477,910 | 10,058 |
| Uganda | 93% | 81 | 1:505,641 | 11,665 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 74 | 1:140,963 | 6,526 |
| Sweden | 97% | 71 | 1:138,844 | 5,450 |
| Brazil | 100% | 70 | 1:3,060,516 | 56,278 |
| Scotland | 100% | 69 | 1:77,542 | 2,023 |
| Thailand | 100% | 68 | 1:1,030,380 | 37,113 |
| Liberia | 100% | 66 | 1:66,849 | 3,251 |
| Bahamas | - | 56 | 1:7,132 | 1,028 |
| France | 100% | 48 | 1:1,384,799 | 9,425 |
| Denmark | - | 43 | 1:131,384 | 3,441 |
| Peru | 100% | 41 | 1:775,401 | 11,577 |
| Guyana | 100% | 40 | 1:19,082 | 2,394 |
| Greece | 100% | 37 | 1:295,528 | 5,032 |
| Belgium | 100% | 36 | 1:319,168 | 6,264 |
| Nauru | 100% | 36 | 1:331 | 35 |
| Sudan | 100% | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Guam | - | 35 | 1:4,590 | 836 |
| Italy | 94% | 35 | 1:1,744,631 | 12,743 |
| South Korea | - | 35 | 1:158,412 | 6,684 |
| Ireland | 100% | 33 | 1:140,713 | 3,035 |
| Honduras | 100% | 29 | 1:304,051 | 5,793 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 29 | 1:46,945 | 4,279 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 26 | 1:2,358 | 517 |
| Panama | 100% | 24 | 1:162,773 | 6,758 |
| Norway | 100% | 22 | 1:233,288 | 5,551 |
| Spain | 100% | 22 | 1:2,114,998 | 11,922 |
| Jersey | - | 20 | 1:4,999 | 624 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 20 | 1:2,733 | 523 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Macau | - | 19 | 1:32,011 | 444 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 19 | 1:1,589,573 | 29,905 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 18 | 1:456,305 | 7,530 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 16 | 1:376,146 | 7,303 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 15 | 1:476,800 | 16,943 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Finland | 86% | 13 | 1:421,783 | 5,250 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 12 | 1:8,283 | 1,404 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 11 | 1:2,097,812 | 47,531 |
| Oman | - | 11 | 1:373,515 | 4,585 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 11 | 1:17,668,880 | 95,124 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 11 | 1:9,977 | 1,310 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 11 | 1:8,420,283 | 3,954 |
| Ecuador | - | 9 | 1:1,969,658 | 11,243 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Mauritius | - | 9 | 1:144,198 | 3,629 |
| Palau | - | 9 | 1:2,412 | 36 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 9 | 1:648 | 154 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Belarus | 100% | 8 | 1:1,185,298 | 6,117 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:3,906 | 755 |
| El Salvador | - | 8 | 1:792,723 | 5,723 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 6 | 1:794,658 | 9,692 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 6 | 1:524 | 108 |
| Grenada | 100% | 6 | 1:18,021 | 1,808 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 6 | 1:2,957,808 | 19,121 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 5 | 1:368,629 | 2,296 |
| Argentina | 100% | 5 | 1:8,554,649 | 17,386 |
| Israel | 100% | 5 | 1:1,680,584 | 18,495 |
| Benin | - | 4 | 1:2,643,961 | 45,199 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Monaco | - | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Nepal | - | 4 | 1:7,121,838 | 62,014 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 4 | 1:27,895 | 3,010 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Austria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,838,067 | 11,255 |
| Cook Islands | - | 3 | 1:6,051 | 772 |
| Guatemala | - | 3 | 1:5,369,476 | 9,171 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Colombia | - | 2 | 1:23,889,463 | 63,722 |
| Czechia | 100% | 2 | 1:5,328,081 | 8,108 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Senegal | 100% | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Tanzania | - | 2 | 1:26,394,160 | 73,301 |
| Turkey | - | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 2 | 1:17,354 | 1,059 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
Rex (24,272) may also be a surname.
Rex Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Latin rex ‘king'. Its use as a christian name is modern and was not known to Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Is not Latin rex, ‘a king,’ but an English ‘telescoping’ of Reginald. Occasionally, however, it is heard as a diminutive of Eric.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Latin name, meaning: King.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Rex Forename Popularity
Rex Demographics
Average Male Rex Height
175.94 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 1,659 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Phonetically Similar Names
| Forename | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhex | 86 | 342 | / |
| Rexh | 86 | 145 | / |
| Rexx | 86 | 102 | / |
| Rexs | 86 | 70 | / |
| Rexe | 86 | 50 | / |
| Roex | 86 | 33 | / |
| Reix | 86 | 19 | / |
| Raex | 86 | 18 | / |
| Rexz | 86 | 14 | / |
| Riex | 86 | 11 | / |
| Reyx | 86 | 8 | / |
| Recx | 86 | 7 | / |
| Redx | 86 | 5 | / |
| Reex | 86 | 4 | / |
| Rexd | 86 | 4 | / |
| Reax | 86 | 4 | / |
| Rrex | 86 | 3 | / |
| Hrex | 86 | 2 | / |
| Retx | 86 | 2 | / |
| Resx | 86 | 2 | / |
| Rexc | 86 | 1 | / |
| Rekx | 86 | 1 | / |
| Regx | 86 | 1 | / |
| Rexp | 86 | 1 | / |
| Rext | 86 | 1 | / |
| Reux | 86 | 1 | / |
| Re'x | 86 | 1 | / |
| Rezx | 86 | 1 | / |
| Rexhë | 75 | 501 | / |
| Rexhe | 75 | 70 | / |
| Rexce | 75 | 11 | / |
| Rexse | 75 | 7 | / |
| Rex's | 75 | 3 | / |
| Rhexs | 75 | 3 | / |
| Rheex | 75 | 2 | / |
| Rheyx | 75 | 2 | / |
| Rejxe | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reucx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rejxp | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rehhx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rzexh | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rhexx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rheix | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rhedx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Rey'x | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reynx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reexe | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reixe | 75 | 1 | / |
| Hrehx | 75 | 1 | / |
| Reg | 67 | 24,914 | / |
| Res | 67 | 5,341 | / |
| Rox | 67 | 3,052 | / |
| Rez | 67 | 2,109 | / |
| Rix | 67 | 992 | / |
| Rek | 67 | 458 | / |
| Rej | 67 | 388 | / |
| Rax | 67 | 361 | / |
| Rec | 67 | 300 | / |
| Ryx | 67 | 21 | / |
| Req | 67 | 17 | / |
| Rexche | 67 | 5 | / |
| Rjx | 67 | 5 | / |
| Geerex | 67 | 1 | / |
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- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Rex