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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.