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The reid Surname

reid Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Older Scots reid ‘red’.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, from Old English r¯d ‘woodland clearing’. Compare English Read.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the reid family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of reid Families in the US in 1920
Number of reid families
 609-1215
 204-608		 1-203
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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