Reese
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Rhys, from the Old Welsh personal name Rts ‘fieriness, ardour’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 82nd most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.8K
- GRGreece≈1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Reese itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 512 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rhys in GB United Kingdom.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Rhys, from the Old Welsh personal name Rts ‘fieriness, ardour’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Reese, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #983 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Reese | 4 |
| US United States | #369 | 73,919 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Reese | 512 |
| GB United Kingdom | #747 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 19 | Rhys | 268 |
| IT Italy | #666 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 3 | Reese | 20 |
| CA Canada | #738 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 25 | Reese | 156 |
| GR Greece | #316 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Reese | 8 |
| SG Singapore | #288 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Reese | 35 |
| JM Jamaica | #82 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Reese | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 377as Reece | 1 in 2K | 377 | — | 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Reese 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 German, German surname from a personal characteristic: metonymic name for a tall person, from mhd./mnd. 'riese' = 'giant'; bearer count 3436.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In English, A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] from Welsh Rhys.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Delia, US singer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, Familienname zu mhd. twërc, zwërc 'Zwerg'; persönliche Eigenschaft: kleiner Mensch. Belegt mit 3436 Trägern; Re(h)se ist Nebenform.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Gustave Reeseb. 1899USAmerican musicologist (1899–1977)
- Pee Wee Reeseb. 1918USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Della Reeseb. 1931USAmerican actress and singer (1931-2017)
- Cassidyb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper from Philadelphia
- Melissa Reeseb. 1985USAmerican musician
- Brittney Reeseb. 1986USAmerican female Olympic athlete
- Fabian Reeseb. 1997DEGerman association football player
- Rhett Reeseb. 2000USAmerican screenwriter
- Piper Reeseb. 2000USAmerican kid's entertainment reporter and broadcaster
- Angel Reeseb. 2002USAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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 58 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 74K | #445 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 72K | #405 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 71K | #454 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 are other forms of the name Reese?
- In the etymology graph, Reece and Rees are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Reese mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Rhys, from the Old Welsh personal name Rts ‘fieriness, ardour’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Reese?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹis/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Reese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Reese in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reese.
- How common is the name Reese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 73,919 people named Reese in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Reese compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Reese is the 983rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Reese?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reeseThe 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, “Reese” — the 983rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.