Reesa
#14,544 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reesa has been given to 748 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #14,544 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Reesa, 2025
1 in 553,000
Reesa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Reesa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,544
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reesa sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reesas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reesa was born before 1977 — so the typical Reesa is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 20.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 701
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (153).
Is Reesa 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
- −2,613
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,433
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,536
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.55×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 1963 (21)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.4% average annual change
Spellings of Reesa
Reesa is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 38.6% against Reesa's 0.07%.
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.
Reesa around the world
Where Reesa 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 & Wales2005–2012#5,876in 2012
- Canada2002–2002#2,580in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Reesa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Reesa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reesa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.