Reeves
Reeves is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 56 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,957 among girls’ names and #2,442 among boys’, #4,667 among all names counting both); 1,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reeves by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reeves?
#2,442 among boys’ names, 2025
Reeves rose from #4,048 in 2015 to #2,442 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 32.8 per million.
81 babies in 2024, the peak
Reeves peaked in 2024, when 81 babies were given it (68 boys, #2,166 among boys’ names). The 66 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,442 | 32.8 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,166 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,540 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,597 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,201 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,183 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,201 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,969 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,076 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,068 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,048 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,231 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,282 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,640 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,502 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,197 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,015 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,429 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,469 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,223 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,395 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,568 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,489 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,598 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,265 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,710 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,152 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,931 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,200 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,449 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,733 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,841 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,226 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,291 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,277 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,864 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,605 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,683 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,285 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,608 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,588 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,385 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,145 | 3.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,659 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,607 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,239 | 3.9 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,636 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,913 | 3.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,376 | 7.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,424 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,388 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,414 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,453 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,633 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,959 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,709 | 8.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,171 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,834 | 8.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,632 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,111 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,638 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,102 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,977 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,205 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,456 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,942 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,922 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,324 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,664 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,258 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,692 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,780 | 10.6 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,914 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,716 | 23.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reeves a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,059 Americans recorded as Reeves, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Reeves: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reeves, and how old are they?
An estimated 804 Americans named Reeves and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Reeves (103 women and girls, 604 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 553 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,441 babies since 1880, Reeves is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 66 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Reeves
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.
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