Reyes

Where Reyes comes from

Reyes hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,310 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1915
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1954
    Peak, #868
    71 babies named Reyes — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,339.
  5. 1976
    Reyes Estévez born
    Spanish athletics competitor
  6. 1993
    Reyes Moronta born
    Dominican baseball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Reyes Estévez · Spanish athletics competitor, born 1976
  • Reyes Moronta · Dominican baseball player, 1993–2024
  • Reyes Abades Tejedor · Spanish special effects supervisor, 1949–2018
  • Reyes Tamez-Guerra · Mexican immunologist, born 1952
  • Reyes Berruezo · Spanish politician, born 1951

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.