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The name Reed is of English origin, and is a variation of Reid. The table below indicates the number of times the name Reed has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Reed**
Use of the Name Reed for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
19,449	13,595	9,166	5,143	2,477	982	505

The table below indicates the number of times the name Reed has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Reed first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Reed**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	689	8
1882	685	9
1883	787	7
1884	696	9
1885	920	6
1886
1887
1888	520	15
1889	576	12
1890	558	13
1891	627	10
1892	535	15
1893	644	11
1894	621	12
1895	471	19
1896	532	16
1897	639	12
1898	468	20
1899	768	9
1900	695	14
1901	674	11
1902	472	21
1903	446	22
1904	558	17
1905	519	20
1906	538	19
1907	613	18
1908	625	18
1909	706	16
1910	517	30
1911	581	28
1912	657	42
1913	530	67
1914	626	66
1915	567	101
1916	584	99
1917	510	127
1918	546	122
1919	586	106
1920	558	123
1921	525	141
1922	539	136
1923	571	120
1924	627	106
1925	591	114
1926	507	144
1927	592	110
1928	564	119
1929	557	112
1930	593	104
1931	566	108
1932	649	87
1933	626	86
1934	648	87
1935	666	80
1936	674	78
1937	748	67
1938	598	98
1939	700	73
1940	621	93
1941	614	96
1942	541	130
1943	599	111
1944	585	110
1945	576	111
1946	548	135
1947	532	161
1948	504	171
1949	417	266
1950	468	205
1951	438	240
1952	447	250
1953	441	262
1954	453	253
1955	452	269
1956	453	279
1957	457	286
1958	493	250
1959	552	200
1960	543	213
1961	589	181
1962	563	196
1963	608	167
1964	585	184
1965	611	157
1966	601	153
1967	616	148
1968	637	142
1969	639	155
1970	619	171
1971	732	127
1972	723	122
1973	686	136
1974	667	147
1975	730	129
1976	704	140
1977	706	146
1978	604	190
1979	729	141
1980	621	197
1981	610	195
1982	589	215
1983	594	206
1984	590	205
1985	579	229
1986	584	232
1987	584	240
1988	575	255
1989	666	226
1990	655	238
1991	614	276
1992	529	366
1993	482	435
1994	443	508
1995	414	550
1996	422	532
1997	443	504
1998	438	523
1999	424	557
2000	452	527
2001	473	500
2002	492	468
2003	508	477
2004	485	505
Totals:		19,449		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Reed as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Reed appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 122 times during the last 125 years.

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