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Redd

Boy

Redd is a boys' name, meaning “to clear out”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).

What does Redd mean?

Spelling of Reed

“to clear out”

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

Meaning borrowed from Reed. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Redd a girl's or a boy's name?

Redd is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Redd in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,065among boys
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 67% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Redd, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2005, with 6 boys.

2025 had more boys named Redd than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Redd in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were given Redd or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,763, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 6 in 20052025
Redd in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20240–
20230–
20220–
20211#6,364
20200–
20196#3,184
20183#4,959
20173#4,995
20166#3,241
20154#4,086
20143#4,829
20133#4,884
20120–
20110–
20105#3,478
20094#3,909
20081#5,936
20074#3,748
20062#5,314
20056#2,545
20045#2,691
20034#2,990
20020–
20010–
20000–
19994#2,513
19980–
19970–
19964#2,442

How popular is Redd in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,442among boys
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 130,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Redd, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the boys named Redd in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 798 boys in the US were given Redd or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #408, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.

2006Busiest: 16 in 20222025
Redd in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202513#6,442
20248#8,982
202312#6,892
202216#5,629
202113#6,330
20205#12,016
201912#6,772
201811#7,132
20176#10,770
201610#7,600
20156#10,638
20140–
20138#8,784
20120–
20110–
20107#9,686
20090–
20085#12,546
20070–
20066#10,655

Names like Redd

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Redd

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