How Many People Are Named Read?
people named Read are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,604,623 people in the US has this name
Based on 308 babies named Read in Social Security records from 1914 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
14 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was a variant of REED.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Read in English. Counting Read and these spellings together, about 69,688 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Read in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Read alive today is about 45 years old, and 37% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 68 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Read first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1949, to 14 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Read has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #2,097, in 1949.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #2,097 (1949) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #7,891 in the 1990s |
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