Reza
Reza was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,635 among boys’ names; 1,215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Reza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 7 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Reza mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Reza is “a male given name from Iranian Persian [in turn from Classical Persian, in turn from Arabic], variant of Riza.” Its etymology gives the senses “satisfaction, fulfillment” (رِضًا) and “to be pleased; to be satisfied” (رَضِيَ).
Borrowed from Iranian Persian رِضَا (rezâ), from Classical Persian رِضَا (rizā), borrowed from Arabic رِضَا (riḍā), from رِضًا (riḍan, “satisfaction, fulfillment”), verbal noun of رَضِيَ (raḍiya, “to be pleased; to be satisfied”).
/ˈɹɛz.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Reza?
#2,635 among boys’ names, 2025
Reza rose from #4,851 in 2015 to #2,635 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 29.3 per million.
51 babies in 2022, the peak
Reza peaked in 2022, when 51 babies were given it (42 boys, #2,983 among boys’ names). The 50 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,635 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,088 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,792 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,983 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,107 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,254 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,177 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,585 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,562 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,751 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,851 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,285 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,938 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,434 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,388 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,296 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,751 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,680 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,165 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,864 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,224 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,553 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,210 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,011 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,600 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,988 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,293 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,974 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,192 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,342 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,219 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,243 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,394 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,187 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,417 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,921 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,580 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,341 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,444 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,584 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,573 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,406 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,392 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,401 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,184 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,903 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,353 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 35 | #1,613 | 21.3 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,337 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,683 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,871 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,102 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,399 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,889 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,309 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,759 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,473 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reza has been given almost only to boys: 9 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Reza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reza, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,215 Americans ever recorded as Reza. The median Reza alive today is 21 years old; half are between 7 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 4,929 people named Reza (123 women and girls, 4,806 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 934 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 169 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 275 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 261 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 470 |
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 Reza born?
The states with the most babies named Reza are California, New York and Virginia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,489 | 1.5× |
| New York | 5 | #1,984 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,217 | 0.2× |
Where Reza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reza is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.5 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 boys’ 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 Reza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reza
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 Reza and names like it
- Compare Reza and AsimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sReza peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reza since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Reza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.