Ree

Ree is the name of the main character in Winter's Bone, a movie that is pretty good and often wonderful. But this is not a website for off-handed film reviews (see: Caden). No, I am here to talk about Ree.

There is a game I sometimes play. Ree would go along swimmingly with it. In the game, I pick a consonant or two and try to find, if I stick a vowel before or between or after 'em, whether it makes a name or not. And I do it with all the vowels. So, for instance, Ree:

Ra — is sort of a name. Would go well with sister Soleil and brother Heliodoro.
Ree — see above.
Rye — not a name. Ryo, though, that's a character from Street Fighter II. Correction: Ryu.
Roe — the name of my second-grade teacher. I do not know if Roe was a nickname.
Rue — a name, though Rue McClanahan was born Eddi-Rue.

A perennial favorite is J---n. To wit:

Jan
Jane
Jean
Jen
Gin
Joan
John
June

A vowel that doesn't quite work is the one that'd yield us—here the spelling rather escapes me—Jyne (see: Ina). And Juhn, whatever that is. Also, permit me to note that nearly every name listed above, save Gin (as in, you know, Virginia) and June, is a derivation of John (assuming, that is, that Jen is short for Jenny, originally a nickname for Jane, not Jennifer).