Entry № 8669 · Sanskrit origin

Reva Reva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Swift river (the Narmada)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "swift river (the narmada)".

Reva (रेवा) is the Sanskrit name for the Narmada River — one of the seven sacred rivers of Hinduism. The word means "swift" or "flowing." The Narmada is personified as the goddess Reva.

Reva is widely used in India.

The Narmada river. The Sanskrit swift one.

The name in its native script.

रेवा
Transliteration
Revā
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɛ.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Reva stands.

Reva 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.

Revas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Reva
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Reva.

The number behind Reva.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Reva reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.