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Reva

Reva is a girl's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 351st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,981st. About 7,000 Revas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Reva boys named Reva

By the numbers

Total US births
16,059
Estimated living today
7,000
Median age today
60
Peak year
1921
Best rank
351st
Rank in 2025
1,981st
First recorded
1883
Girls / boys
16,048 / 11

How old the living Revas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 16,059 babies given the name since 1883, about 7,000 are alive — 44 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Reva is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Reva is most concentrated in West Virginia (6.7×), Kentucky (6.2×), Missouri (3.2×), Tennessee (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular girls’ names the year Reva peaked:

All the names of 1921

Reva elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Reva 211 1,343rd
France girls Reva +1 spelling 40 4,614th
Scotland girls Reva 7 625th
Northern Ireland girls Reva 3 407th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Reva against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.