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Reina vs Reita

American parents have registered 14,080 Reinas since 1880, against 1,364 Reitas. Reina is still ahead, with 510 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reina against Reita, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reina Reita

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 126 years in which either name was published, Reina for 70 years and Reita for 56 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Reina Reita
Total US births 14,0801,364
Most in one year 55149
Babies in 2025 510under 5
Estimated living today 14,000540
Median age today 1874
Peak year 20241932
Best rank 551st girls1,004th girls
Rank in 2025 582ndunranked
First recorded 18961889
Girls / boys 14,080 / 01,364 / 0

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 Reitas alive today are over 74; half the Reinas are over 18. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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