Reid

What Reid means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Reid yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #278 in 2015 and #293 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Reid?

US: Steady: #278 in 2015, #293 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #856 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 1,432 boys got the name (#260 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 1,485 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,862 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,964 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.52 per 1,000 boys), NH (2.66 per 1,000 boys), MT (2.13 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Reid is #293 in the US and #422 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.1% of US babies named Reid were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Reed770 US · 9 E&W
• Raed23 US · 10 E&W
• Raad17 US
• Redd13 US · 3 E&W
• Red15 US
• Radd14 US
• Rad9 US
• Rood8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Read
• Reed

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Reid

Boys

• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Paxton#338“settlement of (a person named) *Pæcc”^*
• Sawyer#122“one who saws”^*
• Emmitt#769Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*

For a sister

• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Leighton#342“leek + settlement”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Reid’s. Rank is US 2025.