Reta
Reta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 451st, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1946192 births
- Best rank
- #451in 1896
- Since 1880
- 8,616people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,616 girls have been named Reta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 192 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 192 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 19%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Reta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 236 | |
| 1900s | 360 | |
| 1910s | 989 | |
| 1920s | 1,511 | |
| 1930s | 1,651 | |
| 1940s | 1,564 | |
| 1950s | 1,450 | |
| 1960s | 495 | |
| 1970s | 177 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 38 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Reta was the 580th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1946 were Mary, Linda, Patricia, Barbara and Carol. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Reta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freidapeak 1947
- Williapeak 1928
- Rethapeak 1924
- Arlettapeak 1930
- Rebapeak 1925
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Norinepeak 1920
- Pearlypeak 1924
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.