Ree
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹiː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ree is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 329K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ree is read(measured from records)
Ree is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ree in Hindi.
- Dutch5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ree in Dutch.
- Spanish5.3%
initialism of Red Eléctrica de España
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ree counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 7.5K | Ree | 26 |
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Ree | 9 |
| NO Norway | 1,364 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Ree | 42 |
| US United States | 1,012 | 1 in 329K | 1.2K | Ree | 277 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Ree | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Ree | 25 |
| DK Denmark | 90 | 1 in 65K | 90 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ree is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, musicians, to treat with contempt, to scorn
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In gv, king (monarchy, chess, card games, draughts)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Rejang Kayan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, roe, deer of the genus Capreolus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sara Reeb. 1886NONorwegian missionary (1886-1950)
- Lorentz Harboe Reeb. 1888NONorwegian architect (1888-1962)
- Arnold Reeb. 1913EEEstonian boxer (1913-1990)
- Rimhak Reeb. 1922CAKorean Canadian mathematician
- Egil Johan Reeb. 1936NONorwegian journalist and translator
- Hans Reeb. 1944NLDutch chess grandmaster (born 1944)
- Jarle Reeb. 1948NONorwegian photographer
- Viggo Reeb. 1950NONorwegian illustrator
- Ole Eirik Reeb. 1976NONorwegian musician
- Benjamin Reeb. 1989NONorwegian film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ree mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Ree?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,364 people named Ree, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Ree?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹiː/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ree have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Ree in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ree.
- Where is Ree most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ree is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Ree?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ree”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.