Reeves
79,326 people in the United States were counted with the surname Reeves in the 2020 census, making it the 399th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,768.
By the numbers
- People
- 79,326
- Rank
- 399th
- How common
- 1 in 3,768
- Per 100,000
- 26.5
Where the name comes from
Origin an occupational name
As an English surname, variant of Reeve with excrescent -s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Reeves described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Reeves
- Keanu Reeves (born 1964)Canadian actor and musician
- Steve Reeves (1926–2000)American bodybuilder and actor
- George Reeves (1914–1959)American actor
- Matt Reeves (born 1966)American film writer, director and producer
- Hubert Reeves (1932–2023)Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
- Rachel Reeves (born 1979)British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2024 to 2026
- Jim Reeves (1923–1964)American country singer
- Dianne Reeves (born 1956)American jazz singer
People named Reeves with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Reeves
Also a first name
Reeves has been given to 1,059 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2024. 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.