Reid

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Reid: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Reid: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #339 in 2010, and it stood at #402 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#339highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#5493
2022	#5669
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #394 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #432 among boys in Scotland, #464 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1040 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2010–2024
Highest recorded position: #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2010 (recorded 2010–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #402 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Reid appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,150 births with the name.

Reid across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Reid's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#464 (2024)	#464 (2024)	29 of 29	1,150 (1996–2024)	86 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#339 (2010)	#339 (2010)	#404 (2024)	5 of 15	16 (2010–2024)	4 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#730 (2011)	#394 (2024)	#402 (2025)	9 of 15	44 (2011–2025)	9 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5493 (2020)	#4192 (2024)	#4192 (2024)	3 of 5	11 (2020–2024)	5 (2024)

Reid by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Reid in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000s	161	10 of 10	16
2010s	556	10 of 10	56
2020sbusiest	377	5 of 10	75

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 75 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 34, from 36 to 70.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Reid appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #339 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Reid's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#464	86	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#504	78	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#543	71	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#568	64	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#549	69	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#531	74	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#581	65	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#550	70	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#856	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#659	51	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#532	69	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#654	52	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#918	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1218	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1343	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1666	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#984	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#874	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #339, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 86 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Rei · #2165, 15y
Reia · #3192, 10y
Reidar · #32, 72y
Reidun · #17, 65y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rueben · #339, 29y
Theodora · #340, 30y
Elaina · #337, 33y
Kiana · #337, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Antoine · #339, 30y
Arden · #339, 24y
Callam · #339, 18y
Colt · #339, 25y

Reid was ranked #339 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Reid and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Reid without appearing here.

Reid moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1299 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #984 and #2538.
Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1128 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1132 and #1771.
Keith Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1218 and #1099 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #918 and #1551.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #918 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #983 and #1595.

Moved ahead of Reid

Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #984 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1666 and #926.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #731.
Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #875.
Filip Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1410 and #1160.

Moved the opposite way to Reid

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Reid

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reid went from #1040 to #464 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #339 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Reid

Reid at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Reid across 4 official records

Reid by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Reid appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Reid at a glance

Reid across 4 official records

Reid by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Reid appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Reid

Reid and the names beside it

Reid moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Reid

Moved the opposite way to Reid

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