Reaves
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of reave
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹivz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reaves is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular simple present indicative of reave
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ken Reavesb. 1944USAmerican football player
- Michael Reavesb. 1950USAmerican writer and screenwriter (1950–2023)
- John Reavesb. 1950USAll-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback, college football coach (1950–2017)
- Shawn Reavesb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Mallory Reavesb. 1984USAmerican writer and editor (1984-)
- Matt Reavesb. 1984USactor
- Ryan Reavesb. 1987CACanadian-American professional ice hockey player
- Darrin Reavesb. 1993USAmerican football player
- Joshua Reavesb. 1997USPollo frito's team
- Austin Reavesb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,370 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,299 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 54 | #48,432 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 15 | #4,355 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Reaves mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of reave Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Reaves?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹivz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Reaves have the most bearers?
- Reaves is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reavesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Reaves”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.