Reed
Reed is ranked 421st among boys in 2024 (744 births). Its best rank was 318th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #421up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7440.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 20141,096 births
- Best rank
- #318in 2014
- Since 1881
- 36,191people given the name
The story in the numbers
35,284 boys have been named Reed in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 1,096 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 318 → 421).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 907 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Reed | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 76 | |
| 1890s | 137 | |
| 1900s | 175 | |
| 1910s | 790 | |
| 1920s | 1,227 | |
| 1930s | 871 | |
| 1940s | 1,385 | |
| 1950s | 2,494 | |
| 1960s | 1,696 | |
| 1970s | 1,455 | |
| 1980s | 2,206 | |
| 1990s | 4,495 | |
| 2000s | 5,618 | |
| 2010s | 9,013 | |
| 2020s | 3,646 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Reed was the 318th 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 Reed
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ivanpeak 2004
- Reidpeak 2014
- Julianpeak 2017
- Collierpeak 2013
- Eliotpeak 2012
- Raphaelpeak 2024
- Israelpeak 2007
- Piercepeak 2015
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.