Reality
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ree-AL-ih-tee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Reality is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “reality”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Reality mean?
English: the English word
“reality”
Is Reality a girl's or a boy's name?
Reality is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Reality in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Reality, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2000, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had more girls named Reality than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Reality in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Reality in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
Names like Reality
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kennedy, Riley, Serenity, Cassidy, Felicity, Heavenly, Lily, Delaney, Ivy, Trinity, Bailey, Daisy
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Poppy, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison, River
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Reality: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reality, updated 20 October 2026.