Reatha
Reatha was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 2,624 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reatha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,200, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1927, the peak
Reatha peaked in 1927, when 72 girls were given it, #882 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #15,200 | 2.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,339 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,824 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,875 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,187 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,814 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,409 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,402 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,884 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,991 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 12 | #4,362 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,700 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,439 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,410 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,591 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,979 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,295 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,890 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,458 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,943 | 17.3 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,140 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,783 | 18.9 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,017 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,627 | 21.4 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,765 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,791 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,467 | 23.9 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,363 | 27.5 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,334 | 27.2 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,488 | 22.8 |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,317 | 28.6 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,366 | 27.1 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,298 | 28.2 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,433 | 24.2 |
| 1945 | 49 | #1,128 | 37.5 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,184 | 33.9 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,338 | 27.2 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,435 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,114 | 37.2 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,436 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,145 | 37.4 |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,086 | 39.9 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,060 | 43.2 |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,033 | 44.2 |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,053 | 42.0 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,096 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,218 | 34.7 |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,040 | 44.0 |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,055 | 42.3 |
| 1930 | 51 | #1,039 | 45.3 |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,076 | 42.1 |
| 1928 | 50 | #1,067 | 43.4 |
| 1927 | 72 | #882 | 60.4 |
| 1926 | 71 | #886 | 59.9 |
| 1925 | 60 | #967 | 49.3 |
| 1924 | 57 | #1,026 | 45.6 |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,051 | 43.9 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,017 | 45.8 |
| 1921 | 53 | #1,042 | 43.0 |
| 1920 | 69 | #878 | 57.6 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,118 | 38.9 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,054 | 41.5 |
| 1917 | 52 | #972 | 48.1 |
| 1916 | 44 | #1,054 | 42.1 |
| 1915 | 49 | #954 | 49.8 |
| 1914 | 42 | #916 | 55.1 |
| 1913 | 33 | #940 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,339 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 22 | #952 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 25 | #874 | 63.1 |
| 1909 | 18 | #988 | 51.8 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,076 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 17 | #941 | 53.4 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,399 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 15 | #1,002 | 51.4 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,233 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,124 | 42.0 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,124 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,632 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 19 | #880 | 63.4 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,016 | 47.2 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,361 | 29.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,614 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Reatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reatha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reatha, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Reatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 927 people named Reatha (924 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Reatha born?
The states with the most babies named Reatha are North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 168 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 159 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 126 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 51 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Reatha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reatha is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Reatha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,281 babies since 1880, Reatha is the second most given (20% of them).
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 Reatha
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 Reatha and names like it
- Compare Reatha and RethaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sReatha peaked in 1927.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reatha since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Reatha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Reatha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.