Reese
#192 for girls in 2025, 1,631 births · #602 for boys in 2025, 475 births
Given to girls 69.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 2,459 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 44,775since 1924
Reese over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #192 | 1,631 | #602 | 475 |
| 2024 | #190 | 1,592 | #620 | 456 |
| 2023 | #174 | 1,667 | #632 | 439 |
| 2022 | #168 | 1,728 | #645 | 428 |
| 2021 | #148 | 1,890 | #703 | 375 |
| 2020 | #145 | 1,878 | #730 | 336 |
| 2019 | #159 | 1,816 | #759 | 312 |
| 2018 | #159 | 1,792 | #658 | 384 |
| 2017 | #171 | 1,754 | #687 | 362 |
| 2016 | #180 | 1,823 | #672 | 384 |
| 2015 | #172 | 1,859 | #703 | 358 |
| 2014 | #165 | 1,972 | #647 | 407 |
| 2013 | #156 | 2,061 | #603 | 421 |
| 2012 | #128 | 2,459 | #548 | 476 |
| 2011 | #131 | 2,381 | #543 | 471 |
| 2010 | #137 | 2,265 | #487 | 533 |
| 2009 | #144 | 2,236 | #476 | 574 |
| 2008 | #154 | 2,238 | #461 | 599 |
| 2007 | #150 | 2,347 | #457 | 603 |
| 2006 | #161 | 2,187 | #431 | 643 |
| 2005 | #237 | 1,413 | #404 | 699 |
| 2004 | #259 | 1,241 | #389 | 698 |
| 2003 | #312 | 996 | #368 | 709 |
| 2002 | #465 | 614 | #387 | 675 |
| 2001 | #783 | 303 | #393 | 646 |
| 2000 | #885 | 249 | #418 | 592 |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 | #458 | 500 |
| 1998 | #1,992 | 75 | #547 | 365 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #675 | 241 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 | #732 | 209 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #734 | 214 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #779 | 185 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #790 | 179 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #798 | 171 |
| 1991 | — | #920 | 131 | |
| 1990 | — | #893 | 132 | |
| 1989 | — | #878 | 131 | |
| 1988 | — | #938 | 105 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,016 | 87 | |
| 1986 | — | #983 | 88 | |
| 1985 | — | #970 | 88 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,251 | 54 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,375 | 46 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,278 | 53 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,373 | 47 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,272 | 53 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,532 | 38 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,393 | 44 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,198 | 54 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,238 | 49 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,378 | 40 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,109 | 55 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,177 | 48 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,109 | 54 | |
| 1970 | — | #959 | 70 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,152 | 46 | |
| 1968 | — | #884 | 66 | |
| 1967 | — | #867 | 68 | |
| 1966 | — | #809 | 81 | |
| 1965 | — | #948 | 60 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,126 | 46 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,195 | 42 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,028 | 55 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,108 | 50 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,178 | 44 | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #1,090 | 50 |
| 1958 | — | #1,104 | 48 | |
| 1957 | — | #966 | 62 | |
| 1956 | — | #977 | 58 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,002 | 56 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,082 | 48 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,033 | 49 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,094 | 44 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,195 | 37 | |
| 1950 | — | #973 | 51 | |
| 1949 | — | #958 | 52 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,091 | 42 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,176 | 38 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,076 | 41 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,163 | 32 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,038 | 40 | |
| 1943 | — | #923 | 52 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,054 | 41 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,333 | 25 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,135 | 34 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,070 | 36 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,076 | 36 | |
| 1937 | — | #967 | 42 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,142 | 33 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,123 | 34 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,213 | 30 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,281 | 27 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,035 | 41 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,078 | 39 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,116 | 39 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,094 | 40 | |
| 1928 | — | #913 | 54 | |
| 1927 | — | #990 | 50 | |
| 1926 | — | #963 | 50 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,022 | 45 | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | #907 | 59 |
| 1923 | — | #873 | 61 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,010 | 49 | |
| 1921 | — | #849 | 66 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,045 | 44 | |
| 1919 | — | #949 | 50 | |
| 1918 | — | #996 | 45 | |
| 1917 | — | #900 | 50 | |
| 1916 | — | #877 | 52 | |
| 1915 | — | #893 | 48 | |
| 1914 | — | #836 | 41 | |
| 1913 | — | #950 | 27 | |
| 1912 | — | #970 | 22 | |
| 1911 | — | #856 | 15 | |
| 1910 | — | #556 | 26 | |
| 1909 | — | #840 | 12 | |
| 1908 | — | #685 | 15 | |
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | #927 | 8 | |
| 1905 | — | #666 | 13 | |
| 1904 | — | #723 | 11 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | #651 | 12 | |
| 1901 | — | #727 | 9 | |
| 1900 | — | #836 | 10 | |
| 1899 | — | #786 | 8 | |
| 1898 | — | #744 | 9 | |
| 1897 | — | #515 | 15 | |
| 1896 | — | #826 | 8 | |
| 1895 | — | #795 | 8 | |
| 1894 | — | #730 | 9 | |
| 1893 | — | #572 | 12 | |
| 1892 | — | #641 | 11 | |
| 1891 | — | #564 | 11 | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | #464 | 16 | |
| 1888 | — | #815 | 7 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | #605 | 10 | |
| 1885 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1884 | — | #613 | 10 | |
| 1883 | — | #677 | 8 | |
| 1882 | — | #691 | 8 | |
| 1881 | — | #653 | 8 | |
| 1880 | — | #809 | 6 | |
The first year at least five girls were named Reese! It came in at #4,434, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1991, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Reese
- 2 spots since 2024 (#190 → #192)
- 47 spots since 2020 (#145 → #192)
- 20 spots since 2015 (#172 → #192)
- Biggest jump: 318 spots in 2002 (#783 → #465)
- Biggest drop: 28 spots in 2013 (#128 → #156)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2012 at #128 (2,459 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 716 girls born in 2012 were named Reese (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 985 girls born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 45.1% of all girls named Reese (20,182) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | #4,434 (1924) | #4,434 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 372 | #1,143 (1999) | #5,903 |
| 2000s | 13,824 | #144 (2009) | #355 |
| 2010s | 20,182 | #128 (2012) | #156 |
| 2020s | 10,386 | #145 (2020) | #170 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Reese in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 42,756 of them was named Reese, which outranked 81.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,849Wesley42
- #2,849Yoana42
- #2,849Zakia42
- #2,901Reese41
- #2,901Alizabeth41
- #2,901Araseli41
- #2,901Arriana41
- #2,966Abbygail40
- #2,966Adreanna40
- #2,966Aiesha40
Tied with 64 names at #2,901; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 9,064 of them was named Reese, which outranked 93.1% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).