girl's name

Reesa

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 762

Reesa is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 1963, when 21 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 552,792 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1945.

Reesa over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1940s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Reesa by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1940s 47
1950s 103
1960s 153
1970s 91
1980s 84
1990s 42
2000s 114
2010s 84
2020s (to 2025) 30

How popular is Reesa?

In 2025, Reesa was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Reesa is used

Canada #2,980 5 in 2002
England & Wales #7,597 3 in 2012
United States #14,780 6 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Reesa

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Reesa also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Reesa over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Reesa

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Reesa — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Reesa

How popular is the name Reesa?

In 2025, Reesa was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Reesa a girl's or a boy's name?

Reesa is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Reesa most popular?

Reesa peaked in 1963, when 21 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Reesa a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Reesa currently ranks #14,780 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.