Reif
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reif has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2006, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Reif, 2015
1 in 617,000
Reif 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Reif?
Reif had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reif sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reifs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reif was born before 2008 — so the typical Reif is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 58.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Reif 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 2006 (6)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Reif
Reif is not the most common spelling — Jeff is, with 24.2% against Reif's <0.01%.
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.
Reif around the world
Where Reif 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 & Wales2000–2002#2,636in 2002
- South Australia1978–1978#424in 1978
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Reif by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Reif
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reif
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.