Entry № 8600 · Hebrew origin

Reba Reba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REE-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"To bind (Reba McEntire, Queen of Country)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "to bind (reba mcentire, queen of country)".

Reba is a short form of Rebecca — from the Hebrew Rivkah ("to bind, to ensnare"), implied as something captivating. Star of the WB/CW sitcom Reba (2001-2007). Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2018).

Subject of her memoir Reba: My Story (1994).

Queen of Country.

The name in its native script.

Reba
Transliteration
Reba
Pronunciation
/ ˈriː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Reba stands.

Reba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rebas before her.

Real people
Reba McEntire
American country singer.
born 1955
In fiction
Reba
Reba.
2001

Names connected to Reba.

The number behind Reba.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Reba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.