Reece

At the 2020 census, 23,834 Americans bore the surname Reece — 1,457th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,834
Rank: 1,457th
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Reece described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.0%
Black, not Hispanic 14.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Reece

Jimmy Reece (1929–1958)racecar driver

People named Reece with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Reece

Also a first name

Reece has been given to 26,917 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.