Reeve

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Reeve: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Reeve: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #1,363, and it stood at #1,460 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1363highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#5765
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2022	#4645

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1591 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1363 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1460 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Reeve appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 276 births with the name.

Reeve across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Reeve's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#1363 (2023)	#1460 (2024)	28 of 29	276 (1996–2024)	19 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#5765 (2017)	#4634 (2021)	#4645 (2022)	4 of 6	14 (2017–2022)	4 (2021)

Reeve by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Reeve in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000s	83	10 of 10	8
2010s	91	9 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	72	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Reeve appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1363 in England and Wales in 2023.

Reeve's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1879	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,363, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
14 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#1,460position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
19births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Benson · #1363, 27y
Dov · #1363, 27y
Nicolo · #1363, 23y
Zev · #1363, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arion · #1363, 21y
Benson · #1363, 27y
Dennie · #1363, 20y
Dov · #1363, 27y

Reeve and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Reeve without appearing here.

Reeve moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1363 and #4107.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2304 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1744 and #4052.
Roger Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #1781 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1363 and #3523.
Garry Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2507 and #2276 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1859 and #3227.

Moved ahead of Reeve

Theodor Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1859 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2390 and #1522.
Hudson Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1552 and #1889 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1949 and #1202.
Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1591 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1761 and #1174.
Kasper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1534 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1744 and #1168.

Moved the same way as Reeve

Brooke Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Reeve went from #1591 to #2228 and Brooke from #2357 to #4608.
Shannon Compare
Between 1996 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Reeve went from #1591 to #2266 and Shannon from #1168 to #4702.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1363 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Reeve

Reeve at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Reeve across 2 official records

Reeve by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Reeve at a glance

Reeve across 2 official records

Reeve by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Reeve and the names beside it

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