Redding
loc · Latin script
Meaning: present participle and gerund of redd (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Redding is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 15,767 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Redding is also written เรดดิ้ง in Thai and Реддинг in Cyrillic.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 21K
- CACanada≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Redding itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
15,767 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Redding in other scripts: Thai and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)present participle and gerund of redd
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Redding is found
(measured from records)Redding counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 15,767 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Redding | 417 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 3.8K | Redding | 158 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Redding | 99 |
| IN India | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Redding | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 339as Reding | 1 in 25K | 339 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 189as Reding | 1 in 62K | 189 | — | 11 |
15,767 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Redding is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen wie Rading/Reding; Kurzform eines germanischen Rufnamens mit -ing. Belegt: 64 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, 73 Belege; wohl patronymisch zu einem Rufnamen auf Rad-/Red-, teils auch als Herkunftsname zu Reddingen (bei Soltau) denkbar.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Radher/Rad-.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Dutch, rescue
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, rescue, rescuing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Otis Reddingb. 1941USAmerican singer and songwriter (1941–1967)
- Noel Reddingb. 1945GBEnglish rock and roll guitarist (1945–2003)
- Jessica Jaymesb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1979–2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Redding mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle and gerund of redd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Redding?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Redding, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled redding. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, India and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Redding?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,767 people named Redding in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reddingThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Redding” — ranked 2187th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.