Rees — #6203 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rees

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,000 babies named Rees between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rees currently holds the #6203 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Rees is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 136 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rees performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 287 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Rees shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rees in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rees 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 1,000 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.