Girls' name · peaked in 1915

Reba name popularity since 1925

24,146 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Reba. Half of them were born in 1944 or earlier, so the typical Reba is about 82 years old in 2026. Reba peaked in 1915 as the #234 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 24,146; Named Reba, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1915; #234 for girls that year
Typical age: About 82; Median birth year 1944
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #10,733 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 24,115 girls · 31 boys
Most popular in: Tennessee; 6.26× its national share

Peak year is the year Reba made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Reba births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Reba peaked earlier, in 1915.

Steepest fall: Between 1963 and 1968, Reba's share of baby girls fell by 43%, from 1 in 8,000 to 1 in 14,100.
Fastest rise: Between 1987 and 1992, it became 1.6× more common, from 1 in 17,000 baby girls to 1 in 10,900.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Reba's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Reba.

Decade by decade

Babies named Reba in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	3,636	14	–
1930s	6,188	17	#254
1940s	4,847	0	#325
1950s	4,138	0	#420
1960s	2,175	0	#699
1970s	737	0	#1,867
1980s	658	0	#2,125
1990s	1,138	0	#1,336
2000s	293	0	#4,806
2010s	187	0	#8,346
2020–25	118	0	#10,733

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

43.9% of babies named Reba from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Reba is most popular

The index compares Reba's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Reba.

State	Index	Babies
Tennessee	6.26×	2,790
Arkansas	5.80×	1,262
Oklahoma	4.23×	1,167
Alabama	4.18×	1,566
West Virginia	3.70×	689

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Reba's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Reba.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Reba (1915).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data