Reza

6,468 people in the United States were counted with the surname Reza in the 2020 census, making it the 5,214th most common in the country. That is about one person in 46,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,468
Rank: 5,214th
How common: 1 in 46,200
Per 100,000: 2.2

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.

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 74.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 14.5%
White, not Hispanic 8.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Reza

Kévin Réza (born 1988)French racing cyclist

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

Also a first name

Reza has been given to 1,215 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 2025. 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.