Reeta
Reeta is a name with a single cultural origin: Finnish.
- Finnish
Meaning & Origin of Reeta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Reeta is a name with a single cultural origin: Finnish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Finnish
The Story of Reeta
American parents first put Reeta on the record books as a baby girl name in 1899, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1954, when 12 Reetas were born — ranking #3,325 that year. About 28% of every Reeta on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Reeta last appeared in the published SSA data in 1960, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 158 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Reeta
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About the name Reeta
Reeta is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1899 and has accumulated 158 births in the dataset. Reeta's peak popularity came in 1954 when it ranked #3,325. Use the chart and map above to compare Reeta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.