Reeve

5,173 people in the United States were counted with the surname Reeve in the 2020 census, making it the 6,316th most common in the country. That is about one person in 57,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,173
Rank: 6,316th
How common: 1 in 57,800
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English surname, from the noun reeve.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Reeve

Christopher Reeve (1952–2004)American actor
Philip Reeve (born 1966)English children's writer and illustrator
Dana Reeve (1961–2006)American actress and singer
Clara Reeve (1729–1807)English writer, novelist, translator
Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865)British biologist and publisher
Simon Reeve (born 1972)British television presenter

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

Surnames like Reeve

Also a first name

Reeve has been given to 1,183 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2016. 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.