girls:
711 births since 1898
#5005 (12th percentile)
boys:
5.9k births since 1900
#1536 (66th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1898
#3317 (57th percentile)
The name Reyes is the #3,317 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,615 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 57.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,536 (66.5% percentile) for all time with 5,904 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,005 (12.4% percentile) for all time with 711 births since 1898.
Reyes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1900 for boys). Birth data for Reyes is available in 119 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 72 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 Reyes has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Reyes were boys. Interestingly, until around 1904, the name was more popular for girls (68.8% girls from 1898 to 1903), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (89.4% boys from 1904 to 2023).
For boys, Reyes reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 11.9% percentile (ranked #709) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 60 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Reyes ranks #859 for boys (5.7% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 51.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Reyes reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #590) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
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Our model is 40.5% confident that Reyes is pronounced as RAY-ehs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-ihs, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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