Reese

Reese is the 454th most common surname in the United States, shared by 71,141 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,201.

By the numbers

People: 71,141
Rank: 454th
How common: 1 in 4,201
Per 100,000: 23.8

Where the name comes from

As a given name and British surname generally from Welsh Rhys.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.6%
Black, not Hispanic 27.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Reese

Brittney Reese (born 1986)American female Olympic athlete
Della Reese (1931–2017)American actress and singer
Angel Reese (born 2002)American basketball player
Shayne Reese (born 1982)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
Chip Reese (1951–2007)American poker player
Fabian Reese (born 1997)German association football player
Melissa Reese (born 1985)American musician
Pee Wee Reese (1918–1999)American baseball player and coach

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

Surnames like Reese

Also a first name

Reese has been given to 64,381 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2012. 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.