Ree
Ree was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 305 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ree by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ree?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,139, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1953, the peak
Ree peaked in 1953, when 17 babies were given it (12 girls, #3,427 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,139 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,181 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,890 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,279 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,427 | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,674 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,373 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,385 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,344 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,711 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | #5,579 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,553 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,803 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,637 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,392 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,988 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,905 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,427 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,342 | 6.5 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,375 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,564 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,137 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,163 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,545 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,617 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,100 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,034 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,890 | 4.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,640 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,839 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,832 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,961 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,144 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,467 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,617 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,868 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,367 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,705 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,435 | 4.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,003 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,087 | 9.1 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,898 | 10.8 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,653 | 23.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 305 Americans recorded as Ree, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ree: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ree, and how old are they?
An estimated 169 Americans named Ree and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 757 people named Ree (572 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ree rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,391 babies since 1880, Ree is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 819 babies recorded by SSA was a Ree (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Ree and names like it
- Compare Ree and RheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRee peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Ree.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ree alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.