Reaves

15,020 people in the United States were counted with the surname Reaves in the 2020 census, making it the 2,370th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,020
Rank: 2,370th
How common: 1 in 19,900
Per 100,000: 5.0

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

A patronymic form of the occupational name Reeve.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.8%
Black, not Hispanic 38.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Reaves

Austin Reaves (born 1998)American basketball player
Ryan Reaves (born 1987)Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
Michael Reaves (1950–2023)American writer and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Reaves

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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.