girls:
1.8k births since 1892
#3957 (31st percentile)
boys:
190 births since 1912
#4396 (4th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1892
#5756 (26th percentile)
The name Rea is the #5,756 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,021 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 25.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,957 (30.8% percentile) for all time with 1,831 births since 1892. For boys, it ranks #4,396 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 190 births since 1912.
Rea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Rea is available in 123 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023 (123 years for girls and 26 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rea reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #494) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 41 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rea ranks #926 for girls (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 36.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rea reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #522) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1958.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rea".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.0% confident that Rea is pronounced as REE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ray, at 30.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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