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Reva

#1,986 in 2025Girls' name

One that moves

Reva has been given to 16,059 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,986 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 351 recorded.

Babies named Reva, 2025

1 in 34,200

Reva over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reva: meaning, origin, and history

One that moves

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reva means

Reva means “one that moves”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,048 girls were recorded with the name Reva between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 351 in 1921; its best national rank was #352 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,487 in 2020 to #1,986 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,678 in 2015 to #1,986 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Reva between 1920 and 1945. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1920; its best national rank was #3,682 in 1945.

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.

How common is Reva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,986
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reva 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Revas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reva was born before 1938 — so the typical Reva is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,883
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (3,108).

Is Reva 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
+729
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,501
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+692
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.6%
Peak was 1921 (351)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#352
1921

Spellings of Reva

Reva is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 13.9% against Reva's 0.65%.

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 Reva is used

Across 2016–2025, Reva was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 20,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 6,250
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Reva around the world

Where Reva ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • France
    2000–2025
    #4,614
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Reva

People whose public names include Reva, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Reva in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Reva. Linked forms have their own page here.

RivaReeva

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Reva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,986
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,501
Best rank ever
#352
1921
Peak year
1921
351 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,048
Count in 2025
97

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,682
1945
Peak year
1920
6 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1945
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reva

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

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Names with a curve like Reva

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Reva, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Reva

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

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