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The REES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,456 2669 0.005 46
United States (1880 census) 4,392 1419 0.009 88
Change since 1880 +8064 -1250 -0.004 -42
Other Countries
Australia 3,843 386 0.024 235
United Kingdom 30,540 158 0.066 665
Top States for REES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,324 2285 0.004 39
Ohio 911 1416 0.008 80
Utah 705 350 0.032 316
Florida 676 2904 0.004 42
Texas 636 3423 0.003 31
Top States for REES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 705 350 0.032 316
Iowa 359 850 0.012 123
Delaware 85 1586 0.011 108
Indiana 616 1148 0.010 101
Washington 533 1290 0.009 90

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called REES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called REES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called REES in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a REES by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of REES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the REES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the REES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of REES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 209 1.68
Mixed Race 144 1.16
Black/African American 132 1.06
Asian/Pacific 80 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.34
White (Caucasian) 11,849 95.13

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the REES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of REES in historical publications

REES. A Welsh personal name, anciently Rhys, whence the modifications and derivatives, Rice, Price or Pryce, (Ap-Rhys) Apreece, Reece, Preece, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to REES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for REES

The following words are slight variants of REES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.