Entry № 8612 · Welsh origin

Reese Reese — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Ardent, fiery"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Welsh)

A name that means "ardent, fiery".

Reese comes from the Welsh Rhys, meaning "ardent," "enthusiastic," or "fiery." It was traditionally a male name and remains so in Wales (where Rhys is spelled correctly).

Today Reese sits in the U.S. top 175 for girls.

Ardent, fiery — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Reese
Transliteration
Reese
Pronunciation
/ riːs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Reese stands.

Reese does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Reeses before her.

Real people
Reese Witherspoon
American actress. Academy Award winner for Walk the Line.
born 1976
In fiction

Names connected to Reese.

The number behind Reese.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Reese reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.