Rees

12,559 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rees in the 2020 census, making it the 2,795th most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,800.

By the numbers

People: 12,559
Rank: 2,795th
How common: 1 in 23,800
Per 100,000: 4.2

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 Rees described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rees

Martin Rees (born 1942)British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Roger Rees (1944–2015)British actor
Alan Rees (1938–2024)racecar driver
Roman Rees (born 1993)German biathlete
Laurence Rees (born 1957)British historian
Mina Rees (1902–1997)American mathematician
Dee Rees (born 1977)American film director, screenwriter
Percy Rees (1883–1970)field hockey player

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

Surnames like Rees

Also a first name

Rees has been given to 1,150 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2000. 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.