In 2025, 97 US girls were named Reva, making it the 1,986th most common girls’ name of the year, up 729 places from #2,715 in 2024. That is 33 more than the 64 girls named Reva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #352, reached in 1921. That year also had the most girls given the name: 351. For comparison, it was #2,678 in 2015 and #658 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reva in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 16,059 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,114 babies named Reva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 657 US girls were named Reva; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reva ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #611 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Reeva, Revae and Reyva are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Tahitian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.