Reem
Reem was given to 138 girls in 2025, #1,537 among girls’ names; 3,610 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,560 Americans named Reem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reem?
#1,537 among girls’ names, 2025
Reem rose from #1,764 in 2015 to #1,537 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 66.7 to 85.9 per million.
177 babies in 2024, the peak
Reem peaked in 2024, when 177 girls were given it, #1,304 among girls’ names. The 138 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138 | #1,537 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 177 | #1,304 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,643 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,520 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,056 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,060 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,713 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,639 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,940 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,764 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,904 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,230 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,202 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,320 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,249 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,726 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,714 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,563 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,435 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,372 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,062 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,732 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,860 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,878 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,858 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,031 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,840 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,959 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,499 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,443 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,850 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,622 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,669 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,722 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,589 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,467 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,451 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,830 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,827 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,392 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,278 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,590 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,110 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,483 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,658 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,937 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,711 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,437 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Reem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reem has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reem, and how old are they?
3,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,610 Americans ever recorded as Reem. The median Reem alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,798 people named Reem (4,732 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 154 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 604 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,540 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Reem born?
The states with the most babies named Reem are New York, Texas and Illinois, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 21 | #783 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,517 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 12 | #786 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 12 | #785 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 9 | #844 | 3.4× |
| California | 9 | #2,242 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,094 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,404 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,314 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,335 | 1.0× |
Where Reem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reem is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1969 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Reem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,994 babies since 1880, Reem is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 138 of their 144 babies (96%), again the most given.
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 Reem
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 Reem and names like it
- Compare Reem and RehamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sReem peaked in 2024.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reem since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Reem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.