Rheba
Rheba was last recorded in 1964, when 6 babies were given it; 1,207 Americans have been recorded with it between 1901 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rheba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rheba?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,608, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1924, the peak
Rheba peaked in 1924, when 52 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #6,608 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,755 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,189 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,193 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,109 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,943 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,957 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,876 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,289 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,734 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 14 | #3,126 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,535 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,559 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,456 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,874 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,824 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,472 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,849 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,853 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,428 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,735 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,427 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,103 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,941 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,278 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,024 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,500 | 23.6 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,408 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,341 | 28.8 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,769 | 19.1 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,541 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,508 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,935 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,192 | 34.8 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,526 | 24.0 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,220 | 34.0 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,727 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,328 | 31.0 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,504 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,320 | 30.4 |
| 1924 | 52 | #1,095 | 41.6 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,347 | 29.0 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,303 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,403 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,274 | 30.9 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,294 | 31.9 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,742 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,500 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,437 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,166 | 35.6 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,888 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,300 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,955 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,285 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,745 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,486 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,823 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,616 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,035 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,663 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,825 | 21.8 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,313 | 33.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rheba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rheba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rheba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rheba, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Rheba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 422 people named Rheba (420 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 403 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rheba?
Rheba is a less common spelling of Reba: SSA has recorded 1,207 Rheba and 35,491 Reba since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 36,698 babies since 1880, Rheba is the second most given (3.3% of them).
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 Rheba
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 Rheba and names like it
- Compare Rheba and RebaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRheba peaked in 1924.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rheba since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Rheba.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rheba alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.