Reed

girls:

885 births since 1921

#4831 (15th percentile)

boys:

34.5k births since 1881

#609 (87th percentile)

overall:

35.4k births since 1881

#1330 (83rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Reed".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
885
Peak Births
51
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1921
Peak Percentile
5.4%
Current Percentile
2.0%
Peak Rank
#576
Current Rank
#928
Female statistics
Total Births
34,535
Peak Births
1,096
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
66.1%
Current Percentile
56.8%
Peak Rank
#183
Current Rank
#394
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Reed

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Reed. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Reed is pronounced as reed.

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100.0%
reed (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
R IY1 D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Reed. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Reed, please vote using the thumbs up button.

rehd (1 syllable)
6 names 1.4k births
R EH1 D
REE-uhd (2 syllables)
5 names 714 births
R IY1 AH0 D

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R IY1 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.