Rever
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɛvɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rever is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 583K
- FRFrance≈1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 583K (inferred from the name graph)
247 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Unlike a collar, the rever is always formed from the same piece of fabric as the rest of the garment's bodice.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rever counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 247 | Rever | 147 |
| IN India | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Rever | 11 |
| FR France | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 583K | 1 | Rever | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 9 | Rever | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Rever | 6 |
247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rever is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, to see again, look over, examine
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of rev (Etymology 1)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of reve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, reverse side
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, to see again
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marie François Gilles Reverb. 1753FRFrench politician
- Maureen Reverb. 1938CACanadian sprinter and long jumper
- Judi ReverCACanadian journalist and author
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 209 | #93,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 174 | #96,918 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Rever mean, and where does it come from?
- The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rever?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɛvɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rever have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 247 people named Rever, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rever.
- How common is the name Rever?
- In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Rever in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reverThe 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, “Rever”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.