Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Reis isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 933
- 812 boys · 121 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 46 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,104 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −16%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,104 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 21.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 45 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 915 as a first name in 2020; 12,346 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reis’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Reis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Epiphany. In English usage, Reis as a surname has a related form in RIES. In Greek usage, Reis as a surname is a transliteration of Ρέις.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Reis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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