Reef
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 81 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,290since 1996
Reef over time
Rank among boys' names. Reef has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #2,527 | 53 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #2,129 | 68 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | — | #2,323 | 58 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,042 | 71 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #2,445 | 53 |
| 2017 | — | #2,493 | 51 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,305 | 57 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,457 | 51 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,370 | 54 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | — | #1,927 | 72 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,974 | 39 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,542 | 47 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,172 | 32 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,456 | 27 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Reef! It came in at #7,971, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1999, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Reef is popular in 1996
No state had 5 or more boys named Reef in 1996, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Reef
- 47 spots since 2024 (#2,527 → #2,480)
- 157 spots since 2020 (#2,323 → #2,480)
- 23 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2021 at #1,884 (81 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,599 boys born in 2021 were named Reef (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.4% of all boys named Reef (573) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 30 | #6,314 (1998) | #7,231 |
| 2000s | 311 | #2,467 (2008) | #3,692 |
| 2010s | 573 | #1,927 (2011) | #2,308 |
| 2020s | 376 | #1,884 (2021) | #2,274 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Reef in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 315,717 of them was named Reef, which outranked 24.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,136Zeshan7
- #7,136Zoe7
- #7,136Zyan7
- #7,971Reef6
- #7,971Aalim6
- #7,971Aaronjames6
- #7,971Abdalla6
- #9,015Aadam5
- #9,015Aaris5
- #9,015Aasim5
Tied with 1,043 names at #7,971; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.