Reep
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reep is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”).
- USUnited States1 in 86K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 109K
- BEBelgium1 in 510K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
3,858 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- DutchReep(measured from records)
- Dutch rootreep“rope”(measured from records)
- Middle Englishhrip“basket”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Also an English metonymic occupational surname for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English hrip (“basket”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reep 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,858 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Reep | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 159 | 1 in 109K | 159 | Reep | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | Reep | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Reep | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 74 | — | 2 |
3,858 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Reep is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a strip, resulting from ripping, cutting etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, rope
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)
- Jon Reepb. 1972USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,640 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 159 | #12,925 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 74 | #39,977 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #44,165 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Reep mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Reep?
- In the etymology graph, Reif is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Reep have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Reep, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reep.
- Where is Reep most common?
- Reep is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reep?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,858 people named Reep in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reepThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Reep”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.