Reza

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Reza boys named Reza

By the numbers

Total US births

1,215

Estimated living today

1,200

Median age today

20

Peak year

2025

Best rank

2,604th

Rank in 2025

2,604th

First recorded

1966

Girls / boys

9 / 1,206

How old the living Rezas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,215 babies given the name since 1966, about 1,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Iranian Persian, from Classical Persian, from Arabic

from borrowed from رِضًا (“satisfaction, fulfillment”), verbal noun of رَضِيَ (“to be pleased; to be satisfied”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Rezas

• Reza Shah (1878–1944)Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty
• Reza Pahlavi (born 1960)last crown prince of Afghanistan
• Reza Hosseini Nassab (born 1959)Iranian grand ayatollah
• Reza Ghoochannejhad (born 1987)Iranian footballer
• Reza Abbasi (1570–1635)Persian painter
• Reza Aslan (born 1972)Iranian-American author, commentator
• Mohammad Reza Geraei (born 1996)Iranian amateur wrestler
• Reza Deghati (born 1952)Iranian photographer and journalist naturalized French

People named Reza with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Reza is most common

• CA231
• NY35
• TX22
• PA5
• VA5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Reza is most concentrated in California (7.7×), New York (1.5×), Texas (1.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Reza peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Reza elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Reza: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Reza among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.