Rece
Rece was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,764 among boys’ names; 527 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rece by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rece?
#8,764 among boys’ names, 2025
Rece rose from #10,378 in 2015 to #8,764 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 5.3 per million.
51 babies in 2002, the peak
Rece peaked in 2002, when 51 boys were given it, #2,114 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,764 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,030 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,770 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,996 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,640 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,685 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,824 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,267 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,640 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,378 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #11,803 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,927 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,638 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,878 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,991 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,261 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,359 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,761 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,290 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,590 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,611 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,171 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,114 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,466 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,718 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,947 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,368 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,994 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,963 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,642 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rece a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rece has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rece: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rece, and how old are they?
An estimated 519 Americans named Rece and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 582 people named Rece (67 women and girls, 515 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 482 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 29,022 babies since 1880, Rece is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 891 babies (1.0%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rece
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rece and names like it
- Compare Rece and ReeceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRece peaked in 2002.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rece since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Rece.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rece alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.