Reva
Reva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 63 births. Its best rank was 352nd, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 630.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921351 births
- Best rank
- #352in 1921
- Since 1883
- 15,950people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,950 girls have been named Reva in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 351 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Reva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 212 | |
| 1900s | 593 | |
| 1910s | 2,067 | |
| 1920s | 3,108 | |
| 1930s | 2,379 | |
| 1940s | 1,795 | |
| 1950s | 1,582 | |
| 1960s | 988 | |
| 1970s | 503 | |
| 1980s | 906 | |
| 1990s | 517 | |
| 2000s | 423 | |
| 2010s | 571 | |
| 2020s | 295 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Reva was the 352nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Reva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laverapeak 1925
- Felipapeak 1919
- Claricepeak 1921
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Laurinepeak 1918
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Rethapeak 1924
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.