Reid
Reid is ranked 300th among boys in 2024 (1,118 births). Its best rank was 259th, in 2013, 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #300up 15 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1180.07% of boys
- Peak year
- 20141,432 births
- Best rank
- #259first in 2013
- Since 1886
- 40,596people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,638 boys have been named Reid in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 1,432 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 261 → 300).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 958 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Reid | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 71 | |
| 1910s | 362 | |
| 1920s | 729 | |
| 1930s | 505 | |
| 1940s | 887 | |
| 1950s | 1,771 | |
| 1960s | 1,354 | |
| 1970s | 1,637 | |
| 1980s | 2,855 | |
| 1990s | 4,827 | |
| 2000s | 6,529 | |
| 2010s | 12,663 | |
| 2020s | 5,373 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Reid was the 261st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Reid
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anderspeak 2014
- Cainpeak 2014
- Jeronimopeak 2023
- Julianpeak 2017
- Zacariaspeak 2010
- Reypeak 2021
- Abelpeak 2015
- Lucaspeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.