Reef
Reef is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202181 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1996
- 1,290people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,234 boys have been named Reef in the United States since 1996, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 81 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 46%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 56 girls have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Reef was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Reef
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaziahpeak 2020
- Kooperpeak 2022
- Ishaanpeak 2019
- Alijahpeak 2021
- Jetpeak 2019
- Demaripeak 2021
- Yaelpeak 2023
- Ahmaripeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.