Definition of "reputation"

And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.

1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] ‎, Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117

Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.

1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎, Houghton Mifflin, page 12