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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Red-haired; reed

First name variations: Reed, Reid, Reade, Read

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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’.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English ryding.