Reese Family History
Reese Name Meaning
Welsh: from one of the most common Welsh personal names,
Rhys, Old Welsh Ris ‘ardor’. This was the name of the
last ruler of an independent kingdom of Wales, Rhys ap Tewder, who
died in 1093 unsuccessfully opposing the Norman advance.North German and Dutch: nickname for a very big man, from
Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rese ‘giant’.German: habitational name from places called Rees or Reese, in
Rhineland and Lower Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Reese Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Reese families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reese families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Reese Family Origin
Reese Emigration Information (US)
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Reese Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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