Reef
10
Babies in 2024
-37%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 22
-17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Reef
Reef peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (22 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 10 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Reef reached its peak in 1999, when 22 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #750 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 10 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 378 boys have been officially registered with the name Reef in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 136 boys were registered with the name, starting from 16 in 2014 and ending at 10 in 2024.