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Reanne vs Reather

American parents have registered 917 Reathers since 1880, against 651 Reannes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reanne against Reather, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reanne Reather

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Reather for 62 years and Reanne for 41 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Reanne Reather
Total US births 651917
Most in one year 3837
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 640200
Median age today 2677
Peak year 20001919
Best rank 3,453rd girls1,242nd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19721899
Girls / boys 651 / 0912 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Reathers alive today are over 77; half the Reannes are over 26. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Reanne and Reather.