Reef
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 81 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,290since 1996
Reef over time
Rank among boys' names. Reef has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #2,527 | 53 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #2,129 | 68 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | — | #2,323 | 58 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,042 | 71 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #2,445 | 53 |
| 2017 | — | #2,493 | 51 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,305 | 57 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,457 | 51 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,370 | 54 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | — | #1,927 | 72 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,974 | 39 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,542 | 47 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,172 | 32 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,456 | 27 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Reef! It came in at #7,971, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1999, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Reef
- 47 spots since 2024 (#2,527 → #2,480)
- 157 spots since 2020 (#2,323 → #2,480)
- 23 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2021 at #1,884 (81 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,599 boys born in 2021 were named Reef (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.4% of all boys named Reef (573) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 30 | #6,314 (1998) | #7,231 |
| 2000s | 311 | #2,467 (2008) | #3,692 |
| 2010s | 573 | #1,927 (2011) | #2,308 |
| 2020s | 376 | #1,884 (2021) | #2,274 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Reef in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 267,430 of them was named Reef, which outranked 23.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,197Zyasia7
- #12,197Zyniah7
- #12,197Zyri7
- #13,462Reef6
- #13,462Aabha6
- #13,462Aadiya6
- #13,462Aalana6
- #15,194Aagya5
- #15,194Aala5
- #15,194Aalaiya5
Tied with 1,731 names at #13,462; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 25,156 of them was named Reef, which outranked 85.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,113Vander69
- #2,113Vayu69
- #2,113Zacchaeus69
- #2,129Reef68
- #2,129Abbas68
- #2,129Buck68
- #2,129Buckley68
- #2,147Adonai67
- #2,147Amor67
- #2,147Asiel67
Tied with 17 names at #2,129; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.