Name

Name REE

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 13 births of Ree in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Ree per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

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Prénom Ree
In Italiano

Nome Ree

Information about the first name Ree

The first name Ree has been assigned to:

15.38% to boys
84.62% to girls

The country where the first name Ree is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 3 letters including 2 vowels and 1 consonant

Ree in Japanese ^*

Romaji	rii
Katakana	リー
Hiragana	りー
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Ree in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Ree

English

Etymology

As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Rea, Ray.
As a Norwegian surname, from the name of several farmsteads, from an obsolete Old Norse word meaning "gravelly ridge."
As a Korean surname, variant of Ri, itself a variant of Yi.

Etymology

From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, stormy, tempestuous”), from Proto-Germanic *hreuhaz (“bad, wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots ree, rae, ray (“ree”), Old Saxon hrē (“evil, bad, angry”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inrauhtjan, “to become angry, rage against”). Related to Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.

Etymology

Compare riddle (“a sieve”).

Etymology

Probably from a rebracketing of ea with Old English þære, i.e. þære ēa becoming the ree.

Etymology (Noun)

ree (plural rees)
Alternative form of rei (“Portuguese real”)

Etymology (Adjective)

ree (comparative reer or more ree, superlative reest or most ree)
(now chiefly dialectal) Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy.
(now chiefly dialectal) Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy.

Etymology (Alternative forms)

rie (Scotland)

Etymology (Noun)

ree (plural rees)
(now chiefly dialectal) A state of befuddlement; intoxication.
(now chiefly dialectal) A state of great excitement or frenzy.

Etymology (Verb)

ree (third-person singular simple present rees, present participle reeing, simple past and past participle reed)
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To become extremely excited; fly into a rage.
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm.

Etymology (Verb)

ree (third-person singular simple present rees, present participle reeing, simple past and past participle reed)
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.

Etymology (Noun)

ree (plural rees)
(obsolete or Essex dialect) A small river or stream.
1768-9, Tobias George Smollett, The Present State of all Nations:
The church of this pariſh, vulgarly called St. Mary Overy, from its dedication to the virgin Mary, and ſituation over the Ree or river, in reſpect of London, is a ſtately Gothic ſtructure, in the form of a cathedral.

Anagrams

'ere, -eer, EER, Ere, e'er, eer, ere

Anagrams

'ere, -eer, EER, Ere, e'er, eer, ere

Noun

REE (plural REEs)
(geology) Initialism of rare earth element.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɹiː/
Rhymes: -iː

Noun (Derived terms)

HREE, KREEP, LREE

Proper noun (Statistics)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Ree is the 24665th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1012 individuals. Ree is most common among White (57.02%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (26.68%) individuals.

General

Proper noun