Reason
Reason is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 41 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,705 among girls’ names and #3,027 among boys’, #5,729 among all names counting both); 321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reason by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reason?
#3,027 among boys’ names, 2025
Reason rose from #11,776 in 2015 to #3,027 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 24.0 per million.
54 babies in 2024, the peak
Reason peaked in 2024, when 54 babies were given it (41 boys, #3,036 among boys’ names). The 49 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,705 | 41 | #3,027 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,324 | 41 | #3,036 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,973 | 12 | #7,197 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,001 | 18 | #5,380 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,881 | 9 | #8,676 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,902 | 16 | #5,638 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,443 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #10,487 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,887 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,776 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,616 | 8 | #9,423 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #13,625 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,947 | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #10,527 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,475 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #14,031 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #12,037 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,333 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,741 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,746 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,472 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,323 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,379 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 6 | #917 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Reason a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 321 Americans recorded as Reason, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Reason: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reason, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Reason and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 214 people named Reason (63 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 107 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).
More about Reason and names like it
- The most given names of the 2020sReason peaked in 2024.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reason since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Reason.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reason alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.