Redd
Redd was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,721 among boys’ names; 138 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Redd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Redd?
#6,721 among boys’ names, 2025
Redd rose from #11,777 in 2015 to #6,721 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 7.6 per million.
16 babies in 2022, the peak
Redd peaked in 2022, when 16 boys were given it, #5,809 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,721 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,198 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,809 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,590 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,605 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,084 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,500 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,888 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,028 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,777 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,463 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,498 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,140 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,727 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Redd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Redd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Redd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Redd, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Redd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Redd (47 women and girls, 179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 79,602 babies since 1880, Redd is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,996 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Redd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Redd and names like it
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