Reese — #190 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Reese

The Social Security Administration has registered 43,139 babies named Reese between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Reese currently holds the #190 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 2,459 babies received it in a single year. Reese is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19,129 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Reese performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 20,182 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Reese shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,826 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Reese in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Reese 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 43,139 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.