Talk:Reed (name)


 * Importance = mid: "Reed" ranked at 0.122% in the United States in 1990; the threshold for 'mid' being 0.1% (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Assessment). --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Frequency
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 * United States, 1990
 * Rank of 55 with a frequency of 0.122%. Surnames with similar frequency were Rogers (surname) and Cook (surname).
 * United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). 1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100). Retrieved on 24 February 2008.
 * Scotland, 1995
 * not in top 100
 * Scotland, 1976, 1990, 1999/2000/2001
 * not in top 50
 * http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/01surnames_tablea3b.pdf
 * Great Britain, 1998 and 1881
 * Rank 158 in 1881 (0.081%); rank 183 in 1998 (0.073%); the internal distribution in Great Britain during this century did not change.
 * relative frequencies 1998: United States >> Great Britain > Australia ~ New Zealand ~ Canada >> Northern Ireland >> Ireland
 * surname classified as "English"
 * surname classified as "English"

Etymology
Gathering information. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * variant of Read (surname)
 * Sir Walter Scott wrote in the notes to Rokeby of the Northumberland Reeds, "These Reeds of Troughend were a very ancient family, as may be conjectured from their deriving their surname from the river on which they had their mansion. An epitaph on one of their tombs affirms that the family have held their lands of Troughend, which are situated on the Reed nearly opposite to Otterburn, for the incredible space of nine hundred years."  Walter Scott, Rokeby, John Ballantine & Co., Edinburgh, 1813. Eastcote (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sir Walter Scott wrote in the notes to Rokeby of the Northumberland Reeds, "These Reeds of Troughend were a very ancient family, as may be conjectured from their deriving their surname from the river on which they had their mansion. An epitaph on one of their tombs affirms that the family have held their lands of Troughend, which are situated on the Reed nearly opposite to Otterburn, for the incredible space of nine hundred years."  Walter Scott, Rokeby, John Ballantine & Co., Edinburgh, 1813. Eastcote (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Surname page
I have started reworking the surnames into a more conventional list, which may be seen at my sandbox, eventually to become Reed (surname). Please don't disturb it. I may be gone some time. Doug butler (talk) 23:11, 4 June 2023 (UTC)