as a Last Name
- 16,776
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Read
Meaning & Origins
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’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,776
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Read per capita
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