Meaning not yet researched.
Reba: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #231 in 1928.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #231 in 1928; #10,733 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Reba in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,733 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1928, at #231.
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Reba: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #231 in 1928 · most girls in one year: 792 (1925).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Reba, making it the 10,733rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,622 places from #6,111 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 20 girls named Reba in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #231, reached in 1928. The most girls given the name in a single year was 792, in 1925. For comparison, it was #8,346 in 2015 and #422 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reba in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 35,491 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,343 babies named Reba.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 208 US girls were named Reba; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Rebba and Reeba are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Becca and Beck.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rebba (27), Reeba (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,733 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,111 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,140 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,124 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,034 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,745 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,485 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,763 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,346 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,652 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,537 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,296 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,153 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,673 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,515 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,776 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1995 | 124 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1994 | 149 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1992 | 169 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1991 | 156 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1990 | 108 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1989 | 97 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1988 | 109 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1970 | 121 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1969 | 113 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1968 | 116 | #964 | — | — |
| 1967 | 164 | #769 | — | — |
| 1966 | 166 | #761 | — | — |
| 1965 | 199 | #699 | — | — |
| 1964 | 218 | #702 | — | — |
| 1963 | 241 | #653 | — | — |
| 1962 | 267 | #614 | — | — |
| 1961 | 309 | #568 | — | — |
| 1960 | 382 | #495 | — | — |
| 1959 | 349 | #520 | — | — |
| 1958 | 365 | #502 | — | — |
| 1957 | 403 | #472 | — | — |
| 1956 | 452 | #431 | — | — |
| 1955 | 444 | #420 | — | — |
| 1954 | 453 | #407 | — | — |
| 1953 | 440 | #407 | — | — |
| 1952 | 429 | #403 | — | — |
| 1951 | 441 | #389 | — | — |
| 1950 | 362 | #422 | — | — |
| 1949 | 432 | #377 | — | — |
| 1948 | 440 | #378 | — | — |
| 1947 | 488 | #364 | — | — |
| 1946 | 475 | #347 | — | — |
| 1945 | 442 | #325 | — | — |
| 1944 | 440 | #324 | — | — |
| 1943 | 529 | #303 | — | — |
| 1942 | 526 | #300 | — | — |
| 1941 | 525 | #281 | — | — |
| 1940 | 550 | #264 | — | — |
| 1939 | 538 | #267 | 5 | #3,865 |
| 1938 | 574 | #264 | — | — |
| 1937 | 601 | #256 | — | — |
| 1936 | 609 | #251 | — | — |
| 1935 | 614 | #254 | — | — |
| 1934 | 636 | #245 | — | — |
| 1933 | 627 | #242 | — | — |
| 1932 | 657 | #240 | 6 | #3,696 |
| 1931 | 652 | #233 | — | — |
| 1930 | 680 | #235 | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1929 | 642 | #247 | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1928 | 729 | #231 | — | — |
| 1927 | 726 | #241 | — | — |
| 1926 | 747 | #235 | 8 | #3,322 |
| 1925 | 792 | #232 | — | — |
| 1924 | 773 | #236 | 7 | #3,783 |
| 1923 | 728 | #242 | 5 | #4,756 |
| 1922 | 728 | #241 | — | — |
| 1921 | 748 | #241 | 5 | #4,841 |
| 1920 | 699 | #248 | — | — |
| 1919 | 706 | #239 | — | — |
| 1918 | 689 | #245 | — | — |
| 1917 | 618 | #250 | — | — |
| 1916 | 665 | #241 | 7 | #3,445 |
| 1915 | 662 | #234 | — | — |
| 1914 | 502 | #238 | — | — |
| 1913 | 410 | #240 | 5 | #3,175 |
| 1912 | 335 | #245 | — | — |
| 1911 | 259 | #243 | — | — |
| 1910 | 236 | #251 | — | — |
| 1909 | 208 | #246 | — | — |
| 1908 | 183 | #261 | — | — |
| 1907 | 167 | #267 | — | — |
| 1906 | 150 | #273 | — | — |
| 1905 | 162 | #256 | — | — |
| 1904 | 128 | #279 | — | — |
| 1903 | 126 | #280 | — | — |
| 1902 | 129 | #277 | — | — |
| 1901 | 124 | #262 | — | — |
| 1900 | 116 | #305 | — | — |
| 1899 | 93 | #310 | — | — |
| 1898 | 133 | #262 | — | — |
| 1897 | 82 | #325 | — | — |
| 1896 | 109 | #274 | — | — |
| 1895 | 87 | #313 | — | — |
| 1894 | 100 | #278 | — | — |
| 1893 | 65 | #335 | — | — |
| 1892 | 71 | #322 | — | — |
| 1891 | 58 | #335 | — | — |
| 1890 | 43 | #383 | — | — |
| 1889 | 39 | #392 | — | — |
| 1888 | 33 | #437 | — | — |
| 1887 | 29 | #410 | — | — |
| 1886 | 28 | #412 | — | — |
| 1885 | 22 | #455 | — | — |
| 1884 | 19 | #475 | — | — |
| 1883 | 15 | #513 | — | — |
| 1882 | 9 | #668 | — | — |
| 1881 | 17 | #415 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #488 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).