Rece
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- REES
- Origin
- Welsh
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Rece is a boys' name of Welsh origin, meaning “ardour, enthusiasm”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Rece mean?
Welsh: spelling of Reece; anglicised spelling of Rhys
“ardour, enthusiasm”
An anglicised spelling of Rhys, borne by the Lord Rhys, a 12th-century ruler of Deheubarth in south Wales.
Meaning borrowed from Reece. More on Wiktionary.
Is Rece a girl's or a boy's name?
Rece is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rece in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Rece, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 51 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Rece in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,981 boys in the US were given Rece or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #202, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Rece in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,530 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,100 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,264 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,638 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,225 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,524 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,530 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,114 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,088 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,425 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,669 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,829 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,292 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,636 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,489 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
Names like Rece
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ridge, Cade, Pierce, Sage, Rome, Sincere, Stone, Jace, Luke, Tate, Trace, Case
Other spellings of Rece
Names related to Rece
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Winnie, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Bowen, Griffin, Gavin, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith, Brynn, Eira
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rece: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rece, updated 20 October 2026.