Reef — #2578 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Reef

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,234 babies named Reef between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Reef currently holds the #2578 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 81 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Reef performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 573 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Reef shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 306 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Hawaii. In total, SSA state-level files list Reef in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Reef 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 1,234 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.