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Reem

#1,537 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Rim

Reem has been given to 3,610 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,537 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 177 recorded.

Babies named Reem, 2025

1 in 24,000

Reem over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reem: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reem means

Reem is a alternate transcription of Rim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Reem → Rim. The family’s meaning is “white antelope”, recorded in the naming reference for Rim.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,610 girls were recorded with the name Reem between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 177 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,304 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,060 in 2020 to #1,537 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,764 in 2015 to #1,537 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Reem?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,000
138 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,537
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reem sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,653 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reem was born before 2009 — so the typical Reem is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,610
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Choose a decade

2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (1,036).

Is Reem 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
−233
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+227
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.0%
Peak was 2024 (177)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,304
2024

Spellings of Reem

Reem is not the most common spelling — Renee is, with 32.4% against Reem's 0.63%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Reem is used

Across 2016–2025, Reem was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 10,781 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

234 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 2,941
  2. 2New York1 in 5,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 6,250
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 7,143
  5. 5Ohio1 in 8,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 9,091
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Reem around the world

Where Reem 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #542
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #814
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Reem

People whose public names include Reem, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Reem by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,537
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 523
Best rank ever
#1,304
2024
Peak year
2024
177 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,610
Count in 2025
138

Names similar to Reem

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Reem

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Reem, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Reem

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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