Shortreed
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE sceort + ræd ‘short counsel’; first attested Martin, Simon Shortrad(e) 1274 RH (Essex) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shortreed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 210Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.5Mfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OE sceort + ræd ‘short counsel’; first attested Martin, Simon Shortrad(e) 1274 RH (Essex)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where the surname Shortreed is found
(measured from records)Shortreed 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Shortreed | 70 |
| US United States | — | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 199 | Shortreed | 121 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 26 | Shortreed | 32 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Shortreed | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Shortreed | 7 |
| NR Nauru | #752 | — | — | — | Shortreed | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shortreed mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE sceort + ræd ‘short counsel’; first attested Martin, Simon Shortrad(e) 1274 RH (Essex) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shortreed?
- Mondonomo estimates about 195 people named Shortreed in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shortreed. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Philippines and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shortreed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Shortreed in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Shortreed compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Shortreed is the 752nd most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shortreedThe 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, “Shortreed” — the 752nd most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.