# Red (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/red/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 396 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 396 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 188, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | 13,947 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,148 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,634 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,445 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,385 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,499 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,008 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,031 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,080 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,580 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,682 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5,812 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,866 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,395 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6,075 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4,157 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,318 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Red

- Red Buttons, American comedian and actor (1919–2006)
- Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (1917–2006)
- Red Skelton, American comedian (1913–1997)
- Red Mitchell, American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet (1927-1992)
- Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach (1920-1998)
- Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1927-2019)
- Red Foley, American country musician (1910–1968)
- Red Nichols, American jazz musician (1905–1965)
- Red Norvo, American musician (1908–1999)
- Red Schoendienst, American baseball player and coach (1923–2018)
- Red Faber, (1888-1976) American baseball player and coach
- Red Ruffing, American baseball player and coach (1905–1986)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.