Reece — #455 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Reece

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,290 babies named Reece between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Reece currently holds the #455 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 798 babies received it in a single year. Reece is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,746 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Reece performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Reece shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,556 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Reece in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Reece in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 21,290 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.