Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Reese was most popular in 2007, when 2,950 American babies were given the name — ranking #253 that year. In 2025 it ranked #319, with 2,106 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 64,381 people named Reese.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Reese is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 144 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 64,381 American births named Reese between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 61,814 are estimated to be alive today.
2,106 American babies were named Reese in 2025, ranking #319 that year.
Reese is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 2,136 births a year, against 2,573 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -17% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Reese is a unisex name — 69.5% of the 64,381 Americans given it were girls and 30.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 2003 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 82% girls and 18% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 61,814 Americans named Reese are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 14 years old, and half are between 8 and 20. That is a narrow band: Reese arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org