Reh
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The Arabic letter ر
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 191K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 204K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
3,734 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the noun Reh 'roe deer'; also from place-names and field names
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Reh is read(measured from records)
Reh is one spelling over 2 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.
- English51%
The Arabic letter ر.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German28%
from the noun Reh 'roe deer'; also from place-names and field names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
roe deer (small deer species, Capreolus capreolus)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Reh 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 | 3,734 | 1 in 89K | 5.8K | Reh | 213 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Reh | 23 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Reh | 44 |
| CA Canada | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 392K | — | Reh | 31 |
| FR France | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 800K | 7 | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Reh | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 44 | 1 in 191K | 44 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 211 | Reh | 6 |
3,734 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Reh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, root (of a plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, state, condition
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, to come
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)
- Jacob Ludwig Theodor Rehb. 1801DEGerman politician (1801-1868)
- Théodore Rehb. 1845BEBelgian painter
- Heinrich Rehb. 1860DEGerman politician (1860-1946)
- Franz Rehb. 1861ATtechnician (1861-1904)
- Ludwig Heinrich Rehb. 1867DEentomologist
- Emma Rehb. 1896USAmerican journalist
- Francis Frederick Rehb. 1911USAmerican Catholic bishop (1911-1994)
- Claudia Rehb. 1970DEGerman light mural artist
- Alina Rehb. 1997DEGerman long-distance runner
- Jana Rehb. 2000DEGerman singer and opera singer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.8K | #5,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,780 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 742 | #29,873 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 44 | #20,543 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,635 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Reh come from?
- from the noun Reh 'roe deer'; also from place-names and field names Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Reh mean?
- In English, The Arabic letter ر.
- In which country does Reh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Reh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reh.
- Where is Reh most common?
- Reh is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 89 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,734 people named Reh in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Reh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rehThe 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, “Reh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.