How Many People Are Named Reef?
people named Reef are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 254,873 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,353 babies named Reef in Social Security records from 1996 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
89 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Reef, 4.7% were girls and 95.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 2000s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 9.2% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Reef alive today is about 10 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 16 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Reef first appears in the records in 1996 and was given most often in 2021, to 89 babies. In 2025, 61 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1996 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Reef has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,897, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #2,509.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,509 |
| Best rank | #1,897 (2021) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,302 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Reef alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Reef were born in California than in any other state: about 315 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Reef was given 75.1 times as often in Hawaii, 6.6 times in Florida and 3 times in California.
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