Reba
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1939 at #3,480
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1928 · 729 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 35,431since 1880
Reba over time
Rank among girls' names. Reba has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,498 | 108 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,330 | 124 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,184 | 149 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,131 | 157 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,072 | 169 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,137 | 156 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,445 | 108 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,491 | 97 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,320 | 109 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,336 | 102 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,494 | 83 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,156 | 45 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,327 | 42 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,804 | 56 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,736 | 59 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,551 | 65 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,854 | 49 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,499 | 65 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,239 | 84 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,263 | 81 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,103 | 108 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,020 | 121 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,024 | 113 | — | |
| 1968 | #958 | 116 | — | |
| 1967 | #767 | 164 | — | |
| 1966 | #760 | 166 | — | |
| 1965 | #699 | 199 | — | |
| 1964 | #701 | 218 | — | |
| 1963 | #651 | 241 | — | |
| 1962 | #613 | 267 | — | |
| 1961 | #568 | 309 | — | |
| 1960 | #495 | 382 | — | |
| 1959 | #519 | 349 | — | |
| 1958 | #502 | 365 | — | |
| 1957 | #471 | 403 | — | |
| 1956 | #430 | 452 | — | |
| 1955 | #420 | 444 | — | |
| 1954 | #406 | 453 | — | |
| 1953 | #407 | 440 | — | |
| 1952 | #403 | 429 | — | |
| 1951 | #389 | 441 | — | |
| 1950 | #421 | 362 | — | |
| 1949 | #377 | 432 | — | |
| 1948 | #378 | 440 | — | |
| 1947 | #364 | 488 | — | |
| 1946 | #346 | 475 | — | |
| 1945 | #325 | 442 | — | |
| 1944 | #324 | 440 | — | |
| 1943 | #302 | 529 | — | |
| 1942 | #299 | 526 | — | |
| 1941 | #281 | 525 | — | |
| 1940 | #264 | 550 | — | |
| 1939 | #266 | 538 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | #264 | 574 | — | |
| 1937 | #256 | 601 | — | |
| 1936 | #251 | 609 | — | |
| 1935 | #253 | 614 | — | |
| 1934 | #245 | 636 | — | |
| 1933 | #242 | 627 | — | |
| 1932 | #240 | 657 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | #233 | 652 | — | |
| 1930 | #235 | 680 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #247 | 642 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | #231 | 729 | — | |
| 1927 | #241 | 726 | — | |
| 1926 | #235 | 747 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #232 | 792 | — | |
| 1924 | #236 | 773 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #242 | 728 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #241 | 728 | — | |
| 1921 | #241 | 748 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #248 | 699 | — | |
| 1919 | #239 | 706 | — | |
| 1918 | #244 | 689 | — | |
| 1917 | #249 | 618 | — | |
| 1916 | #240 | 665 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #234 | 662 | — | |
| 1914 | #238 | 502 | — | |
| 1913 | #240 | 410 | #2,821 | 5 |
| 1912 | #245 | 335 | — | |
| 1911 | #243 | 259 | — | |
| 1910 | #251 | 236 | — | |
| 1909 | #246 | 208 | — | |
| 1908 | #260 | 183 | — | |
| 1907 | #267 | 167 | — | |
| 1906 | #270 | 150 | — | |
| 1905 | #256 | 162 | — | |
| 1904 | #278 | 128 | — | |
| 1903 | #278 | 126 | — | |
| 1902 | #274 | 129 | — | |
| 1901 | #261 | 124 | — | |
| 1900 | #304 | 116 | — | |
| 1899 | #310 | 93 | — | |
| 1898 | #258 | 133 | — | |
| 1897 | #320 | 82 | — | |
| 1896 | #273 | 109 | — | |
| 1895 | #312 | 87 | — | |
| 1894 | #278 | 100 | — | |
| 1893 | #334 | 65 | — | |
| 1892 | #320 | 71 | — | |
| 1891 | #332 | 58 | — | |
| 1890 | #382 | 43 | — | |
| 1889 | #388 | 39 | — | |
| 1888 | #431 | 33 | — | |
| 1887 | #403 | 29 | — | |
| 1886 | #406 | 28 | — | |
| 1885 | #446 | 22 | — | |
| 1884 | #463 | 19 | — | |
| 1883 | #499 | 15 | — | |
| 1882 | #634 | 9 | — | |
| 1881 | #405 | 17 | — | |
| 1880 | #466 | 13 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Reba was already there! It came in at #466, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
See more about Reba
- 4,145 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #10,107)
- 4,257 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #10,107)
- 2,099 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1883 (#634 → #499)
- Biggest drop: 229 spots in 1882 (#405 → #634)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1928 at #231 (729 births)
- Births halved by 1950, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 89 yrs · run 1880–1968
- Highest: 1 in 1,486 girls born in 1915 were named Reba (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #231 in 1928, was only 1 in 1,582 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.6% of all girls named Reba (7,312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 224 | #388 (1889) | #454 |
| 1890s | 841 | #258 (1898) | #312 |
| 1900s | 1,493 | #246 (1909) | #269 |
| 1910s | 5,082 | #234 (1915) | #242 |
| 1920s | 7,312 | #231 (1928) | #239 |
| 1930s | 6,188 | #233 (1931) | #249 |
| 1940s | 4,847 | #264 (1940) | #326 |
| 1950s | 4,138 | #389 (1951) | #437 |
| 1960s | 2,175 | #495 (1960) | #724 |
| 1970s | 737 | #1,020 (1970) | #1,512 |
| 1980s | 658 | #1,320 (1988) | #1,907 |
| 1990s | 1,138 | #1,072 (1992) | #1,629 |
| 2000s | 293 | #3,591 (2000) | #4,684 |
| 2010s | 187 | #5,041 (2019) | #6,790 |
| 2020s | 118 | #5,028 (2022) | #6,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Reba in 1923
Top girls' names in 1923
Top boys' names in 1923
More about 1923
girls
1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 1,657 of them was named Reba, which outranked 95.8% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 219,220 of them was named Reba, which outranked 13.6% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 665 names at #4,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.