Reid — #300 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Reid

The Social Security Administration has registered 39,638 babies named Reid between 1886 and 2024, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Reid currently holds the #300 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 1,432 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Reid performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 12,663 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Reid shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,975 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Reid in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Reid in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 39,638 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.