first name
RETA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,287 people named Reta, 85.3% reported their origin as White, 7.8% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Reta peaked in 1946, when 192 babies got the name.
At least 8,616 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Reta by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #926. The largest share of babies named Reta, 32.8%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Reta is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Reta has been most common in Oklahoma (6.8×), West Virginia (6.5×), and Missouri (4.1×), and least common in California (0.25×).
4,831 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Reta
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Reta, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Reta ranks #17,663 of 156,621, with 1,562 people. See Reta as a last name
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