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Read

in New Jersey

There are 463 people with the last name "Read" in New Jersey.

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Read 1,613
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  1. is 1,609th most common Flannery
  2. is 1,610th most common Gamble
  3. is 1,611th most common Kohler
  4. is 1,612th most common Massaro
  5. is 1,613th most common Read
  6. is 1,614th most common Tyson
  7. is 1,615th most common Yeager
  8. is 1,616th most common Cartagena
  9. is 1,617th most common Deutsch

Similar Names and Nicknames

Reed, Reid, Reddy, Redd, Reedy, Ready, Reader, Reading, Reidy, Reade

Most Common First Names for Read

David, Robert, William, John, Charles, Richard, Mary, Barbara, Donald, Edward

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English re(a)d ‘red’.
  • 2. topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, from an unattested Old English rīed, rȳd ‘woodland clearing’.
  • 3. habitational name from various places: Read in Lancashire, the name of which is a contracted form of Old English rǣghēafod, from rǣge ‘female roe deer’, ‘she-goat’ + hēafod ‘head(land)’; Rede in Suffolk, so called from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’; or Reed in Hertfordshire, so called from an Old English ryhð ‘brushwood’.

    • FOREBEARS A family called Read were established in America in the early 18th century by John Read, who was born in Dublin, sixth in descent from Sir Thomas Read of Berkshire, England. His son, George Read (1733–98), was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and as a lawyer helped frame the Constitution.

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