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The name Reid is of English origin, and means red-haired. The table below indicates the number of times the name Reid 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 Reid**
Use of the Name Reid for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
17,712	14,307	10,430	5,425	2,758	1,126	580

The table below indicates the number of times the name Reid has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Reid first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1886, 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 Reid**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1886	939	6
1887
1888
1889
1890	863	7
1891
1892	783	9
1893
1894	559	14
1895	669	11
1896	963	7
1897	841	8
1898	873	8
1899
1900
1901	841	8
1902
1903	897	8
1904	947	8
1905
1906
1907	987	9
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912	850	28
1913	987	26
1914	960	34
1915	958	43
1916
1917	862	55
1918	932	52
1919	774	71
1920	742	78
1921	865	65
1922	713	85
1923	735	80
1924	701	88
1925	749	77
1926	820	66
1927	806	68
1928	749	74
1929	970	49
1930	871	58
1931	919	50
1932	853	57
1933	973	43
1934	896	50
1935	898	50
1936	860	51
1937	875	50
1938	905	49
1939	921	47
1940	778	64
1941	775	65
1942	768	70
1943	734	78
1944	778	65
1945	742	69
1946	674	92
1947	631	119
1948	643	111
1949	543	151
1950	570	141
1951	538	158
1952	495	202
1953	500	194
1954	544	179
1955	536	189
1956	552	189
1957	558	189
1958	595	169
1959	615	158
1960	690	130
1961	650	146
1962	687	128
1963	637	152
1964	647	144
1965	689	117
1966	673	122
1967	640	136
1968	693	119
1969	631	157
1970	568	204
1971	655	158
1972	635	155
1973	723	124
1974	628	164
1975	629	165
1976	668	151
1977	736	135
1978	602	191
1979	631	185
1980	598	210
1981	536	243
1982	528	260
1983	498	288
1984	496	288
1985	506	297
1986	519	290
1987	486	331
1988	500	334
1989	552	307
1990	544	339
1991	522	367
1992	455	482
1993	480	439
1994	430	530
1995	384	614
1996	443	506
1997	452	486
1998	423	548
1999	446	513
2000	439	544
2001	450	537
2002	447	551
2003	459	546
2004	441	580
Totals:		17,712		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Reid 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 Reid appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 104 times during the last 125 years.

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