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Reet

#7,813 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Margareeta

Reet has been given to 319 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #7,813 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Reet, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reet: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Margareeta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reet means

Reet is a short form of Margareeta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Reet → Margareeta. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in Finnish with the source elements margarítēs.

Origin, language, and formation

Reet is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margareeta and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 319 girls were recorded with the name Reet between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,379 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,836 in 2020 to #7,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,379 in 2015 to #7,813 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Reet?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,813
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reet 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reet was born before 2015 — so the typical Reet is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
66.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
319
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Choose a decade

2010s — 66.8% of all recorded uses (213).

Is Reet 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
−631
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,023
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,434
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.4%
Peak was 2015 (33)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,379
2015

Spellings of Reet

Reet is not the most common spelling — Renee is, with 32.4% against Reet's 0.06%.

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 Reet is used

Across 1910–2025, Reet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 350,605 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Reet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reet around the world

Where Reet 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
    2007–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2011
    #407
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Reet by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,023
Best rank ever
#4,379
2015
Peak year
2015
33 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
319
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Reet

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

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Sibling names for Reet

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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