Meaning not yet researched.
Reese: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,631 in 2025. Its best rank was #128 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #128 in 2012; #192 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Reese in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#192 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #128.
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Reese: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,631 girls in 2025. Peak: #128 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 2,459 (2012).
In 2025, 1,631 US girls were named Reese, making it the 192nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #190 in 2024. That is 39 more than the 1,592 girls named Reese in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #128, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,459. For comparison, it was #172 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 475 US boys were named Reese, making it the 603rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 18 places from #621 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 456 boys named Reese in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #369, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 709. For comparison, it was #703 in 2015 and #976 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reese in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 64,381 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 24,290 babies named Reese.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,571 US girls were named Reese; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,890. In 2025 that was about 1 in 985 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reese ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #104 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Reece (26,917 babies since 1880), Reyes (6,690 babies since 1880) and Rise (1,173 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rees, Reis and Reiss are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rees (1,150), Reis (933), Reiss (275), Reise (241), Rease (147), Riese (108), Ries (51), Ryse (23), Reus (18), Reyse (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Reese in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 20 | #104 | #211 |
| Delaware | 8 | #112 | #112 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #120 | #161 |
| Maine | 9 | #125 | — |
| Nebraska | 18 | #129 | #120 |
| Ohio | 84 | #130 | #110 |
| Tennessee | 57 | #131 | #222 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #135 | #178 |
| Oklahoma | 28 | #136 | #203 |
| Colorado | 41 | #136 | #105 |
| Maryland | 34 | #142 | #235 |
| Louisiana | 30 | #143 | #111 |
| Connecticut | 22 | #143 | #117 |
| Arkansas | 21 | #143 | #149 |
| Utah | 32 | #144 | #74 |
| Iowa | 23 | #145 | #154 |
| Kansas | 23 | #145 | #129 |
| Illinois | 67 | #149 | #202 |
| Massachusetts | 38 | #150 | #109 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #154 | #213 |
| Missouri | 40 | #157 | #105 |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | #158 | #169 |
| Michigan | 53 | #163 | #156 |
| Minnesota | 31 | #178 | #153 |
| Georgia | 57 | #184 | #226 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #185 | #247 |
| Wisconsin | 30 | #186 | #128 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #188 | #228 |
| Virginia | 43 | #196 | #201 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #202 | #257 |
| North Carolina | 54 | #203 | #171 |
| Alabama | 22 | #217 | #278 |
| Indiana | 32 | #222 | #94 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #225 | #125 |
| Washington | 33 | #225 | #157 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #233 | #476 |
| Texas | 151 | #233 | #213 |
| New York | 68 | #254 | #241 |
| Florida | 73 | #261 | #214 |
| Arizona | 27 | #268 | #208 |
| California | 112 | #291 | #272 |
| Nevada | 7 | #420 | #250 |
| Oregon | 8 | #472 | #161 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,631 | #192 | 475 | #603 |
| 2024 | 1,592 | #190 | 456 | #621 |
| 2023 | 1,667 | #174 | 439 | #632 |
| 2022 | 1,728 | #168 | 428 | #647 |
| 2021 | 1,890 | #148 | 375 | #703 |
| 2020 | 1,878 | #146 | 336 | #733 |
| 2019 | 1,816 | #159 | 312 | #762 |
| 2018 | 1,792 | #159 | 384 | #660 |
| 2017 | 1,754 | #171 | 362 | #689 |
| 2016 | 1,823 | #180 | 384 | #673 |
| 2015 | 1,859 | #172 | 358 | #703 |
| 2014 | 1,972 | #165 | 407 | #648 |
| 2013 | 2,061 | #156 | 421 | #604 |
| 2012 | 2,459 | #128 | 476 | #548 |
| 2011 | 2,381 | #131 | 471 | #543 |
| 2010 | 2,265 | #137 | 533 | #487 |
| 2009 | 2,236 | #144 | 574 | #477 |
| 2008 | 2,238 | #154 | 599 | #461 |
| 2007 | 2,347 | #150 | 603 | #458 |
| 2006 | 2,187 | #161 | 643 | #432 |
| 2005 | 1,413 | #237 | 699 | #404 |
| 2004 | 1,241 | #259 | 698 | #389 |
| 2003 | 996 | #312 | 709 | #369 |
| 2002 | 614 | #465 | 675 | #388 |
| 2001 | 303 | #783 | 646 | #393 |
| 2000 | 249 | #886 | 592 | #418 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,152 | 500 | #458 |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,007 | 365 | #547 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,505 | 241 | #676 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,945 | 209 | #736 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,991 | 214 | #735 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,015 | 185 | #783 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,480 | 179 | #791 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,308 | 171 | #800 |
| 1991 | — | — | 131 | #927 |
| 1990 | — | — | 132 | #896 |
| 1989 | — | — | 131 | #883 |
| 1988 | — | — | 105 | #941 |
| 1987 | — | — | 87 | #1,022 |
| 1986 | — | — | 88 | #987 |
| 1985 | — | — | 88 | #974 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,261 |
| 1983 | — | — | 46 | #1,393 |
| 1982 | — | — | 53 | #1,288 |
| 1981 | — | — | 47 | #1,389 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,287 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,559 |
| 1978 | — | — | 44 | #1,406 |
| 1977 | — | — | 54 | #1,205 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,255 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,400 |
| 1974 | — | — | 55 | #1,113 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,427 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,190 |
| 1971 | — | — | 54 | #1,122 |
| 1970 | — | — | 70 | #966 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,161 |
| 1968 | — | — | 66 | #891 |
| 1967 | — | — | 68 | #873 |
| 1966 | — | — | 81 | #811 |
| 1965 | — | — | 60 | #955 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,143 |
| 1963 | — | — | 42 | #1,212 |
| 1962 | — | — | 55 | #1,033 |
| 1961 | — | — | 50 | #1,117 |
| 1960 | — | — | 44 | #1,189 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,000 | 50 | #1,098 |
| 1958 | — | — | 48 | #1,113 |
| 1957 | — | — | 62 | #968 |
| 1956 | — | — | 58 | #983 |
| 1955 | — | — | 56 | #1,008 |
| 1954 | — | — | 48 | #1,094 |
| 1953 | — | — | 49 | #1,043 |
| 1952 | — | — | 44 | #1,110 |
| 1951 | — | — | 37 | #1,215 |
| 1950 | — | — | 51 | #976 |
| 1949 | — | — | 52 | #963 |
| 1948 | — | — | 42 | #1,102 |
| 1947 | — | — | 38 | #1,187 |
| 1946 | — | — | 41 | #1,089 |
| 1945 | — | — | 32 | #1,178 |
| 1944 | — | — | 40 | #1,050 |
| 1943 | — | — | 52 | #929 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,071 |
| 1941 | — | — | 25 | #1,366 |
| 1940 | — | — | 34 | #1,152 |
| 1939 | — | — | 36 | #1,081 |
| 1938 | — | — | 36 | #1,091 |
| 1937 | — | — | 42 | #979 |
| 1936 | — | — | 33 | #1,163 |
| 1935 | — | — | 34 | #1,143 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,237 |
| 1933 | — | — | 27 | #1,302 |
| 1932 | — | — | 41 | #1,051 |
| 1931 | — | — | 39 | #1,096 |
| 1930 | — | — | 39 | #1,130 |
| 1929 | — | — | 40 | #1,107 |
| 1928 | — | — | 54 | #923 |
| 1927 | — | — | 50 | #999 |
| 1926 | — | — | 50 | #977 |
| 1925 | — | — | 45 | #1,037 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,938 | 59 | #915 |
| 1923 | — | — | 61 | #879 |
| 1922 | — | — | 49 | #1,017 |
| 1921 | — | — | 66 | #854 |
| 1920 | — | — | 44 | #1,068 |
| 1919 | — | — | 50 | #956 |
| 1918 | — | — | 45 | #1,008 |
| 1917 | — | — | 50 | #906 |
| 1916 | — | — | 52 | #881 |
| 1915 | — | — | 48 | #901 |
| 1914 | — | — | 41 | #851 |
| 1913 | — | — | 27 | #966 |
| 1912 | — | — | 22 | #989 |
| 1911 | — | — | 15 | #887 |
| 1910 | — | — | 26 | #565 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #887 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #706 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,073 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #983 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #694 |
| 1904 | — | — | 11 | #753 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,272 |
| 1902 | — | — | 12 | #679 |
| 1901 | — | — | 9 | #770 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #891 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #843 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #792 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #544 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #884 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #856 |
| 1894 | — | — | 9 | #776 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #603 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #676 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #583 |
| 1889 | — | — | 16 | #479 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #898 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #637 |
| 1885 | — | — | 8 | #751 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #647 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #711 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #742 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #690 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #889 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).