Reeva

What Reeva means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Reeva yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #419 vs #2,859 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Reeva?

US: Rising: up from #3533 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #428 in 2015, #419 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 66 girls got the name (#2637 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 27,242 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,611 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,118 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (0.23 per 1,000 girls), GA (0.11 per 1,000 girls), OH (0.11 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Reeva is #2859 in the US and #419 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Reeva were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Reva97 US · 6 E&W
• Riva41 US · 45 E&W
• Raeva5 US · 3 E&W
• Reyva6 US
• Revy6 US
• Rava5 US
• Rayva5 US
• Reevah0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Reeva

Girls

• Vera#205“faith”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Jane#221“God is gracious”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*

For a brother

• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Reeva’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.