Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Reta

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Reta
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1946

Peak rank proxy

192

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1880Peak 19462024

Peak year

1946

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

8,616

Reta has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1946, when 192 girls were named Reta.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 8,616 Americans have been named Reta and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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