Rees
Rees is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200036 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,000 boys have been named Rees in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 36 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 29%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 136 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rees | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 29 | |
| 1920s | 39 | |
| 1930s | 35 | |
| 1940s | 54 | |
| 1950s | 36 | |
| 1960s | 45 | |
| 1970s | 19 | |
| 1980s | 58 | |
| 1990s | 184 | |
| 2000s | 287 | |
| 2010s | 169 | |
| 2020s | 45 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Rees was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Rees
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keltonpeak 2002
- Draytonpeak 2012
- Quintenpeak 2000
- Donovanpeak 2003
- Donivanpeak 2007
- Garrisonpeak 1999
- Flaviopeak 1996
- Jesuspeak 2004
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.