Reis
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reis is a surname, most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is the 36th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood'.
- PTPortugal1 in 247◐
- AOAngola1 in 1.9K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- #301 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 308 ●
- 1 in 7.6K ◐
across 16 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
476K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Рейс in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Ruys in BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #36 | 34,452 | 16K rec. | — | — | Reis | 187 |
| US United States | — | 12,165 | 31K rec. | 1 in 27K | 12K | Reis | 308 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,717 | 1.9K rec. | — | 5 | Reis | 125 |
| RU Russia | — | 2,235 | 927 rec. | — | — | Рейс | 79 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,880△ | 470 rec. | 1 in 9.2K | 1.9K | Reis | 62 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,341 | 1.2K rec. | — | 1 | Reis | 90 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,102 | 762 rec. | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Reis | 66 |
| AO Angola | #40 | 1,029 | 995 rec. | — | — | Reis | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 845 | 3K rec. | 1 in 59K | 845 | Reis | 96 |
| AR Argentina | — | 785 | 0 rec. | 1 in 58K | 785 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | #33 | 762 | 415K rec. | 1 in 278K | 1.1K | Reis | 237 |
| IT Italy | — | 587 | 445 rec. | — | 24 | Reis | 62 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese4.2M95%
- English103K2%
- French36K1%
- Spanish28K1%
- German19K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 4,208,217 | 95% |
| English | 103,010 | 2% |
| French | 35,774 | 1% |
| Spanish | 28,180 | 1% |
| German | 18,575 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Reis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
kings; Brasil, Portugal, Trieste, Smyrna
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, trip, journey
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In English, The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, first/third-person singular past active indicative of rísa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of rea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1963 | 1 |
| 1965 | 1 |
| 1967 | 1 |
| 1975 | 1 |
| 1977 | 1 |
| 1978 | 1 |
| 1980 | 1 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 2 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 33 |
| 2009 | 39 |
| 2010 | 39 |
| 2011 | 56 |
| 2012 | 63 |
| 2013 | 82 |
| 2014 | 97 |
| 2015 | 128 |
| 2016 | 152 |
| 2017 | 152 |
| 2018 | 128 |
| 2019 | 107 |
| 2020 | 123 |
| 2021 | 149 |
| 2022 | 114 |
| 2023 | 114 |
| 2024 | 80 |
| 2025 | 65 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 50 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Philipp Reisb. 1834DEGerman scientist and inventor (1834–1874)
- Irving Reisb. 1906USAmerican film director (1906-1953)
- Michelle Reisb. 1970PTHong Kong actress
- Marcosb. 1973BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Juninho Pernambucanob. 1975ESnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Ivan Reisb. 1976BRcomic artist
- Eduardo dos Reis Carvalhob. 1982PTPortuguese association football player
- Kali Reisb. 1986USAmerican boxer and actress
- Marina Macheteb. 1995PTnot in their usual namePortuguese model who is Miss Universe Portugal 2023
- Ludovit Reisb. 2000NLDutch footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,918 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.8K | #441 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,478 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 872 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 845 | #5,140 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 845 | #5,140 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 824 | #9,086 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 785 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 763 | #13,266 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 270 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Reis?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Reis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Reis have the most bearers?
- Reis is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled reis.
- How common is Reis compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Reis is the 36th most common surname of 42,514 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Reis mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Riese, Reuße, Zacharias, or 'branch/bushwood'
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Reis” — the 36th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.