Ree vs Reena

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ree Reena

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 101 years in which either name was published, Reena for 77 years and Ree for 24 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1908–1929 Ree ahead
• 1930 Reena ahead
• 1932–1942 Ree ahead
• 1943–1944 Reena ahead
• 1945–1948 Ree ahead
• 1949 Reena ahead
• 1950 Ree ahead
• 1951 Reena ahead
• 1952–1953 Ree ahead
• 1954–2025 Reena ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rees alive today are over 69; half the Reenas are over 37. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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