Reah
Reah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,329 among girls’ names; 374 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reah?
#9,329 among girls’ names, 2025
Reah entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,329 in 2025.
16 babies in 1921, the peak
Reah peaked in 1921, when 16 girls were given it, #2,358 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,329 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,163 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,494 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,693 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,005 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,517 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,302 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,636 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,122 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,201 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,747 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,178 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,069 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,981 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,999 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,959 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,925 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,956 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,338 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,904 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,529 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,945 | 4.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,918 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,044 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,587 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,935 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,247 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,399 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,725 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,732 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,725 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,354 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,318 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,917 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,806 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,478 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,615 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,879 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,924 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,358 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,863 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,966 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,466 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,037 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,489 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,860 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,531 | 7.9 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,715 | 12.6 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,174 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Reah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reah, and how old are they?
An estimated 185 Americans named Reah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 372 people named Reah (365 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Reah?
Reah is a less common spelling of Rhea: SSA has recorded 374 Reah and 20,145 Rhea since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,430 babies since 1880, Reah is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 829 babies (1.3%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Reah and names like it
- Compare Reah and RheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sReah peaked in 1921.
- Idaho’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reah since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Reah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Reah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.