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How popular is “Reed” in the USA?

Number of people named “Reed” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Reed” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Reed” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Reed” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Reed” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Reed” by birth year

This chart shows how “Reed” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 -100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 -100%
1892 15 0.00004486 15 -100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 -100%
1895 19 0.000054128 19 -100%
1896 16 0.000044757 16 -100%
1897 12 0.000034586 12 -100%
1898 20 0.000052431 20 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 14 0.000031093 14 -100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 -100%
1902 21 0.000054301 21 -100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 20 0.000047178 20 -100%
1906 19 0.000044346 19 -100%
1907 18 0.000038677 18 -100%
1908 18 0.000036836 18 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 30 0.000050786 30 -100%
1911 29 0.000045012 29 -100%
1912 43 0.00004352 43 -100%
1913 67 0.000058921 67 -100%
1914 66 0.000046599 66 -100%
1915 101 0.000055118 101 -100%
1916 100 0.000051695 100 -100%
1917 127 0.000063286 127 -100%
1918 123 0.000056653 123 -100%
1919 104 0.000049283 104 -100%
1920 123 0.000054361 123 -100%
1921 147 0.000062968 5 142 -93%
1922 136 0.000059411 136 -100%
1923 119 0.000051683 119 -100%
1924 108 0.000045347 108 -100%
1925 114 0.000048858 114 -100%
1926 144 0.00006272 144 -100%
1927 109 0.000046996 109 -100%
1928 120 0.000053075 120 -100%
1929 112 0.000051091 112 -100%
1930 105 0.000047227 105 -100%
1931 108 0.000051321 108 -100%
1932 89 0.000042154 89 -100%
1933 86 0.000043012 86 -100%
1934 87 0.000041891 87 -100%
1935 85 0.000040672 5 80 -88%
1936 78 0.000037544 78 -100%
1937 67 0.000031446 67 -100%
1938 98 0.000044292 98 -100%
1939 73 0.00003313 73 -100%
1940 91 0.000039519 91 -100%
1941 96 0.000039402 96 -100%
1942 131 0.000047953 131 -100%
1943 111 0.000039326 111 -100%
1944 109 0.000040519 109 -100%
1945 112 0.000042218 112 -100%
1946 135 0.000042249 135 -100%
1947 160 0.000044416 160 -100%
1948 172 0.000049819 172 -100%
1949 268 0.000076906 268 -100%
1950 204 0.00005823 204 -100%
1951 241 0.000065423 241 -100%
1952 250 0.000065824 250 -100%
1953 263 0.000068247 263 -100%
1954 252 0.000063305 252 -100%
1955 270 0.000067246 270 -100%
1956 282 0.000068396 282 -100%
1957 283 0.000067347 283 -100%
1958 252 0.000060959 252 -100%
1959 197 0.000047379 197 -100%
1960 214 0.000051519 214 -100%
1961 179 0.000043213 179 -100%
1962 197 0.000048818 197 -100%
1963 166 0.000041938 166 -100%
1964 190 0.000048873 5 185 -95%
1965 157 0.000043305 157 -100%
1966 153 0.00004402 153 -100%
1967 148 0.000043595 148 -100%
1968 147 0.000043512 5 142 -93%
1969 155 0.0000446 155 -100%
1970 173 0.000047969 173 -100%
1971 129 0.000037584 129 -100%
1972 121 0.000038498 121 -100%
1973 136 0.00004508 136 -100%
1974 148 0.000048684 148 -100%
1975 130 0.000043055 130 -100%
1976 141 0.000046469 141 -100%
1977 145 0.000045648 145 -100%
1978 191 0.000060179 191 -100%
1979 147 0.000044184 6 141 -92%
1980 203 0.000058934 5 198 -95%
1981 196 0.000056658 196 -100%
1982 217 0.000061859 217 -100%
1983 212 0.000061213 5 207 -95%
1984 210 0.000060193 6 204 -94%
1985 235 0.000065843 5 230 -96%
1986 241 0.000067752 8 233 -93%
1987 246 0.000068227 6 240 -95%
1988 255 0.000069011 255 -100%
1989 226 0.000058786 226 -100%
1990 238 0.000060215 238 -100%
1991 282 0.000072396 6 276 -96%
1992 384 0.000099967 17 367 -91%
1993 467 0.000123864 30 437 -87%
1994 553 0.00014875 44 509 -84%
1995 578 0.000157831 28 550 -90%
1996 583 0.000159849 51 532 -83%
1997 533 0.000147004 29 504 -89%
1998 547 0.000148714 23 524 -92%
1999 580 0.000157017 22 558 -92%
2000 553 0.0001463 24 529 -91%
2001 523 0.000139713 22 501 -92%
2002 486 0.000130006 18 468 -93%
2003 493 0.000129658 15 478 -94%
2004 527 0.000137925 13 514 -95%
2005 546 0.000142008 16 530 -94%
2006 587 0.000148375 19 568 -94%
2007 632 0.000158092 15 617 -95%
2008 744 0.000189281 18 726 -95%
2009 709 0.000185594 22 687 -94%
2010 783 0.000211866 24 759 -94%
2011 843 0.000230467 34 809 -92%
2012 842 0.00023022 25 817 -94%
2013 1057 0.000289933 25 1032 -95%
2014 1122 0.000302722 26 1096 -95%
2015 1082 0.00029236 37 1045 -93%
2016 1000 0.000272576 38 962 -92%
2017 881 0.000246351 20 861 -95%
2018 889 0.000252852 34 855 -92%
2019 805 0.000231926 28 777 -93%
2020 693 0.000207449 32 661 -91%
2021 767 0.000226391 27 740 -93%
2022 794 0.000234694 18 776 -95%
2023 749 0.000226202 24 725 -94%
2024 766 0.000230134 22 744 -94%

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