Red
#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 1890 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 396since 1888
Red over time
Rank among boys' names. Red has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,367 | 5 |
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| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1927 | #2,523 | 11 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,446 | 12 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,459 | 12 |
| 1919 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #1,878 | 15 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,945 | 9 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
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| 1906 | #1,111 | 6 |
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| 1890 | #884 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,031 | 5 |
| 1887 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Red! It came in at #1,031, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1889, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Red
- 620 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #5,861)
- 2,206 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #5,861)
- 3,707 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1890 at #884 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1890
- Highest: 1 in 18,504 boys born in 1890 were named Red (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.5% of all boys named Red (93) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,031 (1888) | #1,031 |
| 1890s | 6 | #884 (1890) | #884 |
| 1900s | 12 | #1,111 (1906) | #1,194 |
| 1910s | 79 | #1,740 (1911) | #2,359 |
| 1920s | 93 | #2,012 (1925) | #2,814 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,092 (1932) | #3,451 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,681 (1950) | #3,708 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 16 | #10,556 (2001) | #11,306 |
| 2010s | 64 | #7,048 (2014) | #8,388 |
| 2020s | 83 | #5,241 (2024) | #6,439 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Red in 1888
Top boys' names in 1888
More about 1888
boys
120,852 boys got a published name in 1888; 1 in 24,170 of them was named Red, which outranked 12.4% of the 1,177 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 39.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 146 names at #1,031; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.