girls:
11 births since 2016
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
292 births since 1922
#4294 (6th percentile)
overall:
303 births since 1922
#7436 (4th percentile)
The name Redding is the #7,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 303 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,294 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 292 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2016.
Redding first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Redding is available in 17 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Redding has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Redding reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #893) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Redding ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 88.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Redding reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #948) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Redding".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Redding. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Redding is pronounced as REH-dihng, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is REH-dihng, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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