Reta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Reta

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,616 babies named Reta between 1880 and 1998, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Reta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 192 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Reta performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 1,651 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Reta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 642 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Reta in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Reta 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 8,616 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.