Rees
Rees was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,364 among boys’ names; 1,150 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rees by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rees mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rees is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rees?
#6,364 among boys’ names, 2025
Rees fell from #5,233 in 2015 to #6,364 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 8.2 per million.
44 babies in 2006, the peak
Rees peaked in 2006, when 44 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,363 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,364 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 14 | #6,403 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,078 | 6 | #11,937 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,916 | 8 | #9,639 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,884 | 9 | #8,678 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,577 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,519 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,600 | 15 | #5,976 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 20 | #4,889 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,635 | 10 | #8,029 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,538 | 18 | #5,233 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,619 | 22 | #4,498 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,278 | 19 | #4,929 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,933 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,332 | 18 | #5,145 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,612 | 24 | #4,206 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,883 | 17 | #5,492 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,046 | 32 | #3,472 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,127 | 23 | #4,337 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,772 | 32 | #3,363 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,974 | 30 | #3,369 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,643 | 29 | #3,349 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,327 | 30 | #3,172 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,975 | 26 | #3,421 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 32 | #2,911 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 36 | #2,605 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,355 | 27 | #3,077 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 31 | #2,692 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 20 | #3,555 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 18 | #3,789 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 21 | #3,276 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 12 | #5,043 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,634 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 17 | #3,707 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #5,014 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,128 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 15 | #3,761 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,052 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,762 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 9 | #4,756 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 8 | #4,868 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,484 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,380 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,121 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,339 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,610 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,305 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #3,051 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,474 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,844 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,316 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,941 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,969 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,902 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,735 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 13 | #2,263 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 6 | #3,658 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,133 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,238 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,593 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #3,049 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,677 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,365 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,151 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,833 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,074 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 12 | #2,140 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,817 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,170 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,214 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,440 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,482 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 7 | #3,637 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,101 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 8 | #3,399 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,218 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,831 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,071 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,889 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,806 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,742 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,650 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rees a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,150 Americans recorded as Rees, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rees: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rees, and how old are they?
An estimated 981 Americans named Rees and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,059 people named Rees (170 women and girls, 889 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 933 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,048 babies since 1880, Rees is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 78 babies (18%), again the second 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 Rees
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 Rees and names like it
- Compare Rees and ReyesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRees peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rees since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rees: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Rees.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rees alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.