Meaning not yet researched.
Reeve: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,544 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,544 in 2016; #3,494 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Reeve in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,494 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,544.
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Reeve: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,544 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 50 (2016).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Reeve, making it the 3,494th most common boys’ name of the year, down 53 places from #3,441 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 34 boys named Reeve in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,544, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #3,070 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Reeve, making it the 14,549th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,627 places from #10,922 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Reeve in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,633, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #9,370 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reeve in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 1,183 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 459 babies named Reeve.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 359 US boys were named Reeve; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Reeves, Rev and Reve are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reeves (1,059), Rev (103), Reve (100), Revv (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Reeve in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,549 | 33 | #3,494 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,922 | 34 | #3,441 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,979 | 40 | #3,104 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,291 | 35 | #3,395 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,890 | 42 | #2,958 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,910 | 31 | #3,549 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,501 | 21 | #4,770 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,683 | 28 | #3,864 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,633 | 45 | #2,750 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,310 | 50 | #2,544 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,370 | 38 | #3,070 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,866 | 41 | #2,878 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,943 | 37 | #3,046 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,435 | 29 | #3,691 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,111 | 33 | #3,352 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,641 | 21 | #4,641 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,230 | 35 | #3,259 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,025 | 22 | #4,507 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,014 | 27 | #3,869 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,207 | 22 | #4,336 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,756 | 23 | #4,029 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,650 | 26 | #3,616 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,557 | 18 | #4,574 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,982 | 16 | #4,861 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,821 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,995 | 12 | #5,832 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,363 | 13 | #5,255 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,722 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,470 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,775 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,729 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,790 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,689 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,563 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,118 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,197 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,283 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,795 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,070 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,487 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,047 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,897 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,526 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,570 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,613 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,385 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,426 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,276 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,913 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,673 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,834 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,179 |
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).