First name origin & meaning: Old English: Red-haired; reed First name variations: Reed, Reid, Reade, Read Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire,
which gets its name from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of
Rēad(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.
- English: topographic name for
someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English
ryding.
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