Rea — #6636 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rea

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,849 babies named Rea between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rea currently holds the #6636 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Rea is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 190 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rea performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Rea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Rea in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,849 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.