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reading Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire, which gets its name from Old English Readingas ‘people of Read(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English ryding.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The reading name in History

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Distribution of reading Families in the US in 1920
Number of reading families
 43-83
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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