Reather
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reather has been given to 917 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Reather, 1986
1 in 593,000
Reather over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Reather?
Reather had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1986
- 1 in 593,000
- 6 of 3,556,724 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 286,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 410,890 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reather sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reather. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reathers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reather was born before 1927 — so the typical Reather is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 103
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (261).
Is Reather 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1919 (37)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.9% average annual change
Spellings of Reather
Reather is not the most common spelling — Heather is, with 65.4% against Reather's 0.11%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Reather is used
Across 1910–2025, Reather was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 90,823 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 25,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Reather has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reather by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Reather
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reather
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.