Reva

Where Reva comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Reva.

  • Vowel-ended
Reva through the years
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1895
    Reva Beck Bosone born
    United States Congresswoman from Utah
  3. 1913
    Reva Brooks born
    Canadian photographer
  4. 1921
    Peak, #351
    351 babies named Reva, the most in any year.
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #605.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Reva Beck Bosone · United States Congresswoman from Utah, 1895–1983
  • Reva Brooks · Canadian photographer, 1913–2004
  • Reva Kay Williams · American astronomer, born 2000
  • Reva Unterman · British writer, born 1957
  • Reva Gerstein · Canadian psychologist, 1917–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.