Rea
Rea is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195829 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1892
- 2,039people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,849 girls have been named Rea in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 29 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 11%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 190 boys have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 21 | |
| 1900s | 57 | |
| 1910s | 140 | |
| 1920s | 183 | |
| 1930s | 170 | |
| 1940s | 160 | |
| 1950s | 208 | |
| 1960s | 137 | |
| 1970s | 129 | |
| 1980s | 106 | |
| 1990s | 129 | |
| 2000s | 155 | |
| 2010s | 140 | |
| 2020s | 114 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Rea was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Rea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rafaelapeak 2011
- Leonorpeak 2024
- Eloisapeak 2024
- Faustinapeak 1924
- Cleopatrapeak 1974
- Miriampeak 1924
- Antoninapeak 1915
- Otiliapeak 1935
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.