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Girl or boy · Spanish
Reyes
Say it: REH-yes
Meaning
Spanish 'kings', from the Virgen de los Reyes, patroness of Seville, and the feast of the Three Kings.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Usually María de los Reyes for girls and used alone for boys.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1930s
In the United States
- 6,452 babies given this name since 1898
- At its height in 1930, about 1 in 25,500 boys
- 59 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.