Reeda — girls' name
415 babies named Reeda in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1955. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Reeda was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Reeda in 1955 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Reeda
The Social Security Administration has registered 415 babies named Reeda between 1916 and 2022, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Reeda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Reeda performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Reeda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Reeda in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Reeda 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 415 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.
Reeda at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Reeda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1916
- Peak year (1955)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
415 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1955 with 19 births in a single year.
Reeda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 89 births that decade — 21% of Reeda's all-time total
Reeda decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Reeda's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Reeda by state
Where Reeda concentrates geographically — total births since 1916
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 10 | 2.4% |
10 of 415 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1916–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.