Reva
Reva was given to 97 girls in 2025, #1,986 among girls’ names; 16,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,900 Americans named Reva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 35 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reva?
#1,986 among girls’ names, 2025
Reva rose from #2,678 in 2015 to #1,986 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.5 to 60.4 per million.
351 babies in 1921, the peak
Reva peaked in 1921, when 351 girls were given it, #352 among girls’ names. The 97 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,715 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,781 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,717 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,780 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,487 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,395 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,381 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,810 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,215 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,678 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,908 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,965 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,930 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,541 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,875 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,724 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,839 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,161 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,253 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,568 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,477 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,172 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,448 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,415 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,957 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,518 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,197 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,862 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,586 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 134 | #1,206 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 149 | #1,064 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 132 | #1,131 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 134 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 115 | #1,210 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,327 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,262 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,568 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,602 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,735 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,568 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,842 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,156 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,022 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,188 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,662 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,802 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,523 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 71 | #1,463 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,418 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,348 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,278 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,229 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 93 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,058 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 139 | #899 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 120 | #992 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 140 | #884 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 137 | #889 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 140 | #861 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 161 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 161 | #777 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 172 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 166 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 136 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 166 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 175 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 168 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 154 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 178 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 173 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 197 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 176 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1944 | 147 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 195 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 186 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1941 | 193 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1940 | 196 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 190 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1938 | 223 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1937 | 206 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1936 | 238 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1935 | 226 | #427 | 0.22 |
| 1934 | 276 | #387 | 0.26 |
| 1933 | 239 | #416 | 0.24 |
| 1932 | 280 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1931 | 252 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1930 | 249 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1929 | 266 | #407 | 0.24 |
| 1928 | 282 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1927 | 307 | #392 | 0.26 |
| 1926 | 316 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1925 | 315 | #386 | 0.26 |
| 1924 | 340 | #371 | 0.27 |
| 1923 | 307 | #381 | 0.25 |
| 1922 | 301 | #377 | 0.25 |
| 1921 | 351 | #352 | 0.28 |
| 1920 | 323 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1919 | 291 | #380 | 0.26 |
| 1918 | 304 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1917 | 289 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1916 | 277 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1915 | 260 | #377 | 0.26 |
| 1914 | 175 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 164 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1912 | 121 | #428 | 0.22 |
| 1911 | 95 | #416 | 0.23 |
| 1910 | 91 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1909 | 72 | #439 | 0.21 |
| 1908 | 73 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 79 | #401 | 0.25 |
| 1906 | 67 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1905 | 56 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 54 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1903 | 37 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 48 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1901 | 49 | #430 | 0.20 |
| 1900 | 58 | #439 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 37 | #488 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 36 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1897 | 36 | #487 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 32 | #534 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 16 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 13 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 12 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 11 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 10 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Reva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reva has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 138 years of records.
Girls and boys named Reva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reva, and how old are they?
6,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 43% of the 16,059 Americans ever recorded as Reva. The median Reva alive today is 60 years old; half are between 35 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 7,109 people named Reva (7,077 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,677 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,080 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 847 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 674 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 815 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Reva born?
The states with the most babies named Reva are Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 1,159 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Missouri | 762 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 701 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 671 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 669 | #2,353 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 657 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 619 | #1,371 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 596 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 566 | #1,627 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 561 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Reva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reva is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.3 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 Reva 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 17,208 babies since 1880, Reva is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 172 babies (56%), 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 Reva
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 Reva and names like it
- Compare Reva and ReevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sReva peaked in 1921.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reva since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Reva.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Reva alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.