Given name & surname · also Latin
Reko
Reko is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Reko comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Reko developed from Γρηγόριος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 42 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reko’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Reko shares a linguistic root with the English form Gregory. In Finnish usage, Reko has a related form in Reijo. In Finnish usage, Reko developed from the Ancient Greek form Γρηγόριος.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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