Reece

Where Reece comes from

Borrowed from Welsh Rhys.
— Wiktionary's entry for Reece
  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1998
    Reece Oxford born
    English association football player
  3. 1999
    Reece James born
    English association football player
  4. 2001
    Peak, #344
    798 babies named Reece — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Reece James · English association football player, born 1999
  • Reece Oxford · English association football player, born 1998
  • Reece James · English association football player, born 1993
  • Reece Burke · English association football player, born 1996
  • Reece Prescod · British sprinter, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.