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Reese
Pronounced /ɹis/
Rank in 2024
#190
Born in 2024
1,589
Peak year
2012 · #128
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:455 in 2024 (#620)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,589 girls were named Reese, about 1 in every 1,015.
- It peaked in 2012 with 2,459 babies, ranked #128.
- It first shows up in the records in 1924.
- 43,139 girls have been named Reese since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Reese per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 74 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 21,227 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 21,827 babies, 1.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As a given name and British surname generally from Welsh Rhys (literally “ardor”). Chiefly in North America, the surname may also be from unrelated German Reese (literally “giant”).
- A male given name
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later American usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ɹis/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Reese, CC BY-SA 4.0.