Reece

What Reece means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Reece yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 77% of US babies named Reece in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Reece?

US: Rising: up from #570 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #226 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 798 boys got the name (#344 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,530 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,532 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.82 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.78 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Reece is #460 in the US and #621 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 77.0% of US babies named Reece were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Royce606 US · 21 E&W
• Reese475 US · 3 E&W
• Rayce28 US
• Rees14 US
• Race12 US
• Rece9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Rees
• Reese
• Rhys

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Reece

Boys

• Cade#248“lump, swelling”^*
• Dawson#143Short form of David, meaning “beloved”^*
• Rohan#810“to ascend”^*
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Campbell#763“crooked + mouth”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Camryn#476Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Kamryn#556Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Tatum#189Editor’s note Used for both: 49% of US babies named Tatum in 2025 were girls
• Delaney#242“from the alder grove”^*
• Macie#438Editor’s note Down from #415 in 2015 to #438 in 2025 in the US
• Rylie#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #1,454 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Reece’s. Rank is US 2025.