Why not Rai because of Valiant Comics?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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Hell yeah bro.
My neighbors daughter's name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.
Her mom swears she wasn't named after Arya Stark. She's half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don't want to press to much about her husband...but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.
She's got an older brother whose name sounds like a very famous musician, who was named in a very popular (Western) song around the time he was born, too. But spelled different.
Like, I'm sure these are culturally common names from their Indian side (or not, idk, I honestly don't know a lot of Indians). But the coincidences are too real.
At least Rei with an I is an existing name.
Japanese, unisex (predominately for girls), it can mean anything from beautiful or wise to zero or oyster …depending on how it is written. In the Anime, Rei is written in Katakana, not Kanji, so it is deliberately devoid of meaning.
Naming a kid Rey is almost as bad as naming a kid Khaleesi. And as far I’m concerned, naming any kid after a popular fictional character is technically child abuse.
Ray and she's named from Ghostbusters.
I approve, to a certain degree (because life ain't easy for Rei in NGE, to put it mildly, and shit gets pretty weird between her and her husband dad). At least it's short and sweet, I've seen way worse. And, if my name had to be inspired by popular media, I'd also rather be named Rei from an actual show written by adult human beings instead of Rey from nu-SW. 🤷
Exactly what I was thinking. I'd take being named after an NGE character any day of the week over being named after a SW sequels character, lol
Doesn't Rey mean king in Latin?
Rey is king in Spanish
Rex
I think I've seen it as Rey in old timey Latin, like early Renaissance.
I've gotta know what the conversation with the wife was like. Is she also an Evangelion fan? Did he just float 'Rei' as a unique name?
Honestly, that's probably what happened. My kid has a somewhat unique name that's a derivative of a fictional character, and I brought it up randomly as an idea and it stuck.
Thought about Theo for my son. Short for Theoden. Wife was on board (with Theo) but we ended up going with something else
"I named her Rei because I'm hoping she will be very, very tall."