Reet
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- REET
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Reet is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “custom, tradition”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Reet mean?
Sanskrit: Punjabi and Hindi reet, from Sanskrit riti 'way, custom'
“custom, tradition”
Separately, Reet is an Estonian girls' name, a short form of Margareeta (Margaret).
Is Reet a girl's or a boy's name?
Reet is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Reet in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 21 girls.
Half of all the girls named Reet in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Reet in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 2016 | 17 | #1,853 |
| 2015 | 21 | #1,581 |
| 2014 | 19 | #1,656 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 16 | #1,914 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
How popular is Reet in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Reet, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Reet in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Reet in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,660 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Reet
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Avneet, Saanvi, Aadhya, Manreet, Arya, Dhanvi, Dhriti, Japneet, Sanvi, Yashvi, Vaani
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Reet: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reet, updated 20 October 2026.