Reality

#7,810 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: reality

Reality has been given to 286 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,810 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Reality, 2025

1 in 237,000

Reality over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reality: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: reality

English

What Reality means

Reality takes the English word reality into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Reality is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 286 girls were recorded with the name Reality between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2000; its best national rank was #6,305 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,001 in 2020 to #7,810 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,532 in 2015 to #7,810 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Reality?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,810; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Reality sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reality. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Realitys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reality was born before 2005 — so the typical Reality is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 69.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 286; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Reality rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +5,348; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +9,191; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +10,722; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.80×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 82.4%; Peak was 2000 (17)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 59.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,305; 1996

Reality by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,810
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 9,191
Best rank ever: #6,305; 1996
Peak year: 2000; 17 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 286
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Reality

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Reality

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Madisen Lesli Destiney Gabriel Savana Sydnie Sydnee Cinthia

For a brother

Garret Samual Donavon Shamar Jarod Brandan Zakary Demarco

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