Reade
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reade has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Reade, 2016
1 in 524,000
Reade over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Reade?
Reade had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reade sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reade. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reades were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reade was born before 1987 — so the typical Reade is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 141
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Reade rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (10)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Reade
Reade is not the most common spelling — Wade is, with 22.6% against Reade's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Reade around the world
Where Reade ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–1999#2,943in 1999
- South Australia1962–1962#548in 1962
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Reade by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Reade
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reade
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.