# Rea (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rea/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɹeɪ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,063 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 190 / 1,873 (91% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 354, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 13,109 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,536 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,909 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,865 |
| 2015 | 15 | 7,913 |
| 2016 | 23 | 5,762 |
| 2017 | 18 | 6,747 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,682 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,135 |
| 2020 | 21 | 5,813 |
| 2021 | 27 | 4,930 |
| 2022 | 23 | 5,593 |
| 2023 | 26 | 5,097 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,874 |
| 2025 | 24 | 5,363 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 8 | 3,385 |
| 1929 | 9 | 2,923 |
| 1932 | 8 | 3,043 |
| 1933 | 7 | 3,217 |
| 1935 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 1936 | 8 | 2,806 |
| 1939 | 6 | 3,412 |
| 1941 | 6 | 3,424 |
| 1942 | 7 | 3,149 |
| 1944 | 5 | 3,805 |
| 1946 | 7 | 3,116 |
| 1949 | 5 | 4,099 |
| 1951 | 6 | 3,640 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,890 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,382 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,863 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Rea

- Rea Stark, Entrepreneur / Industrial Designer
- Rea Mauranen, Finnish actress
- Michael League, American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.