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Reiss

#7,097 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Reiss has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #7,097 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.

Babies named Reiss, 2025

1 in 276,000

Reiss over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Reiss over time

In 2025, Reiss went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19902025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Reiss: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reiss means

Reiss is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Reiss is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 211 boys were recorded with the name Reiss between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1999; its best national rank was #4,969 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,690 in 2020 to #7,097 in 2025.

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Reiss between 2004 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2011; its best national rank was #11,947 in 2011.

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 Reiss?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,097
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reiss sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reiss. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reisss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reiss was born before 2006 — so the typical Reiss is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
211
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Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Reiss 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
+6,698
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,593
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 1999 (14)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,969
1999

Spellings of Reiss

Reiss is not the most common spelling — Ross is, with 41.9% against Reiss's 0.11%.

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 Reiss is used

Across 1910–2025, Reiss was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Reiss has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reiss around the world

Where Reiss 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2024
    #535
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Reiss by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,097
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,593
Best rank ever
#4,969
1999
Peak year
1999
14 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
211
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,947
2011
Peak year
2011
9 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reiss

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

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Sibling names for Reiss

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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