Rëëd
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rëëd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Timor-Leste it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.4K
- FIFinland1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
277,030 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Reed in US United States, TL Timor-Leste.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishred(measured from records)
- Old Englishhrēod(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*hreud(measured from records)
From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin. Akin to Saterland Frisian Rait (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳 (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm. They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius). The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.
Sources 4
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rëëd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 277,030 | 1 in 1.2K | 277K | Reed | 58 |
| NO Norway | — | 734 | 1 in 7.4K | 734 | — | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 226 | 1 in 221K | 226 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 136 | 1 in 75K | 136 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 117 | 1 in 1.8M | 117 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 103 | 1 in 54K | 103 | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 49 | 1 in 104K | 49 | — | — |
| TL Timor-Leste | #30 | — | — | — | Reed | 1 |
277,030 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rëëd mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Rëëd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 277 thousand people named Rëëd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reed.
- Where is Rëëd most common?
- Rëëd is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rëëd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277,030 people named Rëëd in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Rëëd compared with other names?
- In Timor-Leste, Rëëd is the 30th most common surname of 2,973 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%AB%C3%ABdThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rëëd” — the 30th most common surname in Timor-Leste. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.