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Sounds like one of those names people are hoping to pass off as a family name, vaguely with the air that one has an important family to connect to, so important that one can afford to wear a surname as first name very unconventionally. It's no longer effective IMO but I think it still appeals to people anyway.
Also soundalike "reave" which I associate as very violent.
So not my thing. But I would get used to a real life Reeve. It's not that bad a sound. If it were a classic girl name already, instead of as it is - I might like it.

I don't care for it in general, so, in this case, it doesn't matter whether the name is on a boy or a girl.
The name Reeve gives off a strange image to me. Reeve the reaper smoked a reefer while waiting to collect the soul of the local reeve.
Other than wanting to come up with bad rhymes around it, it just makes me think of a pompous magistrate in a medieval town that gives the local peasants a hard time.

Don't like it

Nope.

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I get that it sounds similar to Eve, but that R in the beginning really changes it. (I also don't like Reese / Rhys for a girl.) I also went to college with a dude named Reeve, which gives me a very specific image of the name (and it's definitely masculine).

A bit too craggy. I appreciate its sharpness, though.

It reminds me of the name Reece, Reese, Rhys that was popular a while back. I think it works for boys and girls with the "eve" sound helping it work for girls. I like it and it would be a great middle name.

What's the point? Just name her Riva or Reva or even Reeva and let nature take its course. Anyway, back when reeve was an occupation, it would have been male-only, if that matters.

I honestly don't like it as a name period but if I were to hear I'd assume the kid is a boy.