Given name & surname · also German
Ries
“brushwood, twig”
Ries is a surname from German, ultimately from Welsh.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ries goes back to Middle Low German rīs, meaning “brushwood, twig.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Ries comes from German, and ultimately from Welsh.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle Low German rīs (“brushwood, twig”), from Old Saxon hrīs.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ries through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 144 as a first name in 2020; 6,949 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.
Ries’s family of names
In English usage, Ries as a surname has a related form in REIS. In English usage, Ries as a surname has a related form in Rice.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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