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The REID surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 104,007 263 0.039 386
United States (1880 census) 17,238 318 0.034 345
Change since 1880 +86769 +55 +0.005 +41
Other Countries
Australia 13,910 75 0.085 851
United Kingdom 46,792 90 0.102 1,019
Top States for REID by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 7,822 209 0.049 489
New York 7,504 159 0.040 395
California 7,102 437 0.021 210
North Carolina 6,723 121 0.084 835
Texas 5,980 404 0.029 287
Top States for REID by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 6,723 121 0.084 835
South Carolina 3,289 155 0.082 820
Washington DC 403 117 0.070 704
Georgia 5,734 151 0.070 700
Alabama 2,992 212 0.067 673

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called REID live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called REID represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called REID in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a REID by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of REID

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the REID surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the REID surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of REID in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 593 0.57
Asian/Pacific 489 0.47
White (Caucasian) 65,774 63.24
Black/African American 33,293 32.01
Mixed Race 2,049 1.97
White (Hispanic) 1,810 1.74

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the REID surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of REID in historical publications

REID. An old northern pronunciation of red. See Reed. See also Jamiesou's Diet.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to REID

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REID.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for REID

The following words are slight variants of REID that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.