Reis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁejʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 199(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 2.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K
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 Reis 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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- #542 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #35 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | — | Reis | 201 |
| CN China | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Reis | 9 |
| AO Angola | #47 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Reis | 42 |
| US United States | — | 12,165 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Reis | 342 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 242 | Reis | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,880as Ruijs | 1 in 9.2K | 1.9K | Reis | 64 |
| CH Switzerland | #333 | 1,102 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Reis | 70 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
Reis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
kings; Brasil, Portugal, Trieste, Smyrna
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, trip, journey
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In English, The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, first/third-person singular past active indicative of rísa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of rea
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)
- Philipp Reisb. 1834DEGerman scientist and inventor (1834–1874)
- Irving Reisb. 1906USAmerican film director (1906-1953)
- Michelle Reisb. 1970PTHong Kong actress
- Marcosb. 1973BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Juninho Pernambucanob. 1975ESnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Ivan Reisb. 1976BRcomic artist
- Eduardo dos Reis Carvalhob. 1982PTPortuguese association football player
- Kali Reisb. 1986USAmerican boxer and actress
- Marina Macheteb. 1995PTnot in their usual namePortuguese model who is Miss Universe Portugal 2023
- Ludovit Reisb. 2000NLDutch footballer
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 70 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,918 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,063 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 242 | — |
Reference works 9
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Reis?
- In the etymology graph, Rice and Rijs are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Reis mean, and where does it come from?
- from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Reis?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁejʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Reis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Reis in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reis.
- How common is the name Reis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,165 people named Reis in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Reis compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Reis is the 35th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Reis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reisThe 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, “Reis” — the 35th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.