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Reese
Pronounced /ɹis/
Rank in 2024
#620
Born in 2024
455
Peak year
2003 · #368
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,589 in 2024 (#190)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 455 boys were named Reese, about 1 in every 3,770.
- It peaked in 2003 with 709 babies, ranked #368.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 19,129 boys 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
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 893 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 675 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 913 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 861 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,920 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,024 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,661 babies, 0.21 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.