Reid

At the 2020 census, 109,275 Americans bore the surname Reid — 281st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,735.

By the numbers

People: 109,275
Rank: 281st
How common: 1 in 2,735
Per 100,000: 36.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Reid described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 56.8%
Black, not Hispanic 33.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Reid

Tara Reid (born 1975)American actress
Thomas Mayne Reid (1818–1883)American writer
Harry Reid (1939–2021)American politician
Winston Reid (born 1988)New Zealand association football player
Riley Reid (born 1991)American pornographic actress
Thomas Reid (1710–1796)Scottish philosopher
George Reid (1845–1918)Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales
Kerry Reid (born 1947)Australian tennis player

People named Reid with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Reid

Also a first name

Reid has been given to 41,783 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.