Ree
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ree has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 1908. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Ree, 2021
1 in 678,000
Ree over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ree?
Ree had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ree sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ree. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ree was born before 1950 — so the typical Ree is around 75 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 31.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 155
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Ree rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1952 (12)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Ree around the world
Where Ree ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2015–2015#5,730in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ree by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ree
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ree
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.