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Reatha

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Reatha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 874th, in 1910.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192772 births
Best rank
#874in 1910
Since 1893
2,624people given the name
Babies named Reatha, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,624 girls have been named Reatha in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 72 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 72 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Reatha
1890s23
1900s131
1910s376
1920s587
1930s441
1940s422
1950s394
1960s184
1970s51
1980s10
1990s5

In 1927, its biggest year

Reatha was the 882nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.

Names that rose and fell with Reatha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.