Entry № 8738 · Spanish origin

Rio Rio — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"River (Rio de Janeiro + Duran Duran's hit)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Spanish)

A name that means "river (rio de janeiro + duran duran's hit)".

Rio is from the Spanish/Portuguese río (river). Rio Tinto — major Australian-British mining corporation.

River (Rio de Janeiro + Duran Duran's hit) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Rio
Transliteration
Rio
Pronunciation
/ ˈriː.oʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rio stands.

Rio does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rios before her.

Real people
Rio Ferdinand
English Manchester United footballer.
born 1978
In fiction
Rio (Duran Duran)
1982 iconic song.
1982
Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian city.

Names connected to Rio.

The number behind Rio.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rio reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.