Rea

Rea is the 2,437th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,490 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,490
Rank: 2,437th
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rea described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.7%
Hispanic or Latino 24.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Rea

Chris Rea (1951–2025)English male singer-songwriter and guitarist
Stephen Rea (born 1946)Irish actor
Jonathan Rea (born 1987)Northern Irish motorcycle racer
Peggy Rea (1921–2011)American actress
Marvel Rea (1901–1937)actress from the United States
Roy Rea (1934–2005)Northern Irish footballer
Domenico Rea (1921–1994)Italian writer and journalist

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

Surnames like Rea

Also a first name

Rea has been given to 2,063 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1958. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.