girls:
64 births since 2004
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
193 births since 1990
#4393 (4th percentile)
overall:
257 births since 1990
#7482 (3rd percentile)
The name Reiss is the #7,482 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 257 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,393 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 193 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 2004.
Reiss first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Reiss is available in 28 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 11 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Reiss has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Reiss were boys.
For boys, Reiss reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #796) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Reiss ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 71.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Reiss reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #936) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Reiss".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Reiss. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Reiss is pronounced as rees, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rais, at 34.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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