Reyes
Reyes was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,975 among boys’ names; 6,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,790 Americans named Reyes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 21 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reyes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reyes?
#2,975 among boys’ names, 2025
Reyes fell from #2,083 in 2015 to #2,975 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 24.6 per million.
101 babies in 1999, the peak
Reyes peaked in 1999, when 101 boys were given it, #1,237 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 42 | #2,975 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 32 | #3,585 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 58 | #2,382 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 58 | #2,434 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 47 | #2,722 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 59 | #2,315 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 54 | #2,479 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 55 | #2,408 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 42 | #2,879 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 57 | #2,330 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 68 | #2,083 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 61 | #2,223 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 60 | #2,196 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 67 | #2,062 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,964 | 56 | #2,306 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 54 | #2,369 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 62 | #2,178 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,823 | 89 | #1,718 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 66 | #2,088 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 86 | #1,663 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 83 | #1,642 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 80 | #1,624 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 71 | #1,729 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,515 | 87 | #1,467 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 87 | #1,436 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 87 | #1,421 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 101 | #1,237 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 67 | #1,580 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 87 | #1,314 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,076 | 83 | #1,318 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 74 | #1,371 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 88 | #1,236 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 51 | #1,712 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 84 | #1,229 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,835 | 82 | #1,225 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,531 | 90 | #1,139 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 83 | #1,164 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,395 | 71 | #1,208 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 66 | #1,191 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 72 | #1,110 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 62 | #1,206 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 58 | #1,210 | |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,130 | 49 | #1,344 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 73 | #1,069 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 68 | #1,110 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,958 | 71 | #1,077 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,736 | 72 | #1,042 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 59 | #1,166 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,335 | 64 | #1,089 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,906 | 49 | #1,257 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 40 | #1,402 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 54 | #1,120 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,235 | 57 | #1,081 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,997 | 45 | #1,245 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 49 | #1,176 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,983 | 59 | #1,069 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,440 | 62 | #979 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 33 | #1,359 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,915 | 45 | #1,111 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 49 | #1,057 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,351 | 53 | #1,016 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,568 | 50 | #1,077 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 46 | #1,148 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,412 | 42 | #1,210 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 41 | #1,244 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,240 | 45 | #1,174 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 50 | #1,098 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,809 | 57 | #1,010 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,822 | 51 | #1,072 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,747 | 42 | #1,183 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,517 | 48 | #1,087 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,041 | 71 | #873 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,235 | 54 | #986 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,508 | 51 | #1,010 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,293 | 47 | #1,049 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,645 | 52 | #969 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 51 | #981 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,816 | 58 | #908 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,653 | 64 | #871 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,176 | 51 | #943 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,339 | 51 | #895 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,597 | 35 | #1,132 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,590 | 30 | #1,275 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,384 | 50 | #944 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,175 | 35 | #1,125 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,166 | 43 | #991 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,716 | 32 | #1,160 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,892 | 29 | #1,243 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,704 | 33 | #1,161 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,010 | 37 | #1,067 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,987 | 33 | #1,160 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,898 | 36 | #1,114 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,068 | 32 | #1,177 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,017 | 37 | #1,123 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,014 | 33 | #1,212 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,800 | 43 | #1,066 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,554 | 38 | #1,134 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,116 | 48 | #1,001 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,242 | 21 | #1,738 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,552 | 38 | #1,171 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,594 | 30 | #1,355 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,120 | 36 | #1,220 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,153 | 34 | #1,254 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,740 | 28 | #1,430 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,617 | 23 | #1,636 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,802 | 34 | #1,248 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,360 | 23 | #1,567 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,986 | 18 | #1,889 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,038 | 13 | #2,260 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,346 | 25 | #1,408 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,125 | 24 | #1,401 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,238 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,767 | 10 | #1,915 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,110 | 6 | #2,488 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,717 | 6 | #1,551 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,734 | 5 | #1,641 |
| 1908 | under 5 | 10 | #935 | |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,171 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 6 | #1,177 | |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,890 | 5 | #1,464 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,921 | under 5 |
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 Reyes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,690 Americans recorded as Reyes, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 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 Reyes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reyes, and how old are they?
4,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 6,690 Americans ever recorded as Reyes. The median Reyes alive today is 36 years old; half are between 21 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 8,921 people named Reyes (909 women and girls, 8,012 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 193 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 727 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 824 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 688 |
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 Reyes born?
The states with the most babies named Reyes are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,875 | 5.1× |
| California | 9 | #1,792 | 2.0× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,012 | 2.7× |
Where Reyes is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reyes is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 7.4 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 boys’ 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 Reyes 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,048 babies since 1880, Reyes is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 78 babies (54%), 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 Reyes
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 Reyes and names like it
- Compare Reyes and ReesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sReyes peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reyes since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Reyes.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Reyes alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.