# Reeve (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/reeve/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,183 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 944 / 239 (20% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 306, 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 | 13,111 |
| 2012 | 6 | 16,435 |
| 2013 | 13 | 8,943 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,866 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,370 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,310 |
| 2017 | 23 | 5,633 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,683 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,501 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,910 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,890 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13,291 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,979 |
| 2024 | 9 | 10,922 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14,549 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 3,352 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,691 |
| 2013 | 37 | 3,046 |
| 2014 | 41 | 2,878 |
| 2015 | 38 | 3,070 |
| 2016 | 50 | 2,544 |
| 2017 | 45 | 2,750 |
| 2018 | 28 | 3,864 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,770 |
| 2020 | 31 | 3,549 |
| 2021 | 42 | 2,958 |
| 2022 | 35 | 3,395 |
| 2023 | 40 | 3,104 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3,441 |
| 2025 | 33 | 3,494 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Reeve

- Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter and actor
- Reeve Frosler, association football player
- Anne Reeve Aldrich, American poet and novelist (1866-1892)
- Elon Musk, American businessman (born 1971)

## 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.