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Reba

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Reba is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 231st, in 1928.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
200.00% of girls
Peak year
1925792 births
Best rank
#231in 1928
Since 1880
35,421people given the name
Babies named Reba, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

35,421 girls have been named Reba in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 792 births.

The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 792 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 89 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 Reba
1880s224
1890s841
1900s1,493
1910s5,082
1920s7,312
1930s6,188
1940s4,847
1950s4,139
1960s2,174
1970s737
1980s658
1990s1,138
2000s293
2010s187
2020s108

In 1925, its biggest year

Reba was the 232nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Reba

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

Other spellings in the data

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.