Red
#6,072 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Red has been given to 396 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #6,072 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Red, 2025
1 in 221,000
Red 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Red?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,072
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Red sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Red. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Red was born before 1931 — so the typical Red is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 178
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Red 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
- −681
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,503
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,307
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 83.3%
- Peak was 2024 (18)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Red around the world
Where Red 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 & Wales1996–2024#4,271in 2024
- Canada2020–2020#2,570in 2020
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Red by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Red
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Red
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.