Raynald

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Raynald has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1940, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Raynald, 1994

1 in 743,000

Raynald over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Raynald?

Raynald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 743,000
5 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 386,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
515,144 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raynald sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raynald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raynalds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raynald was born before 1963 — so the typical Raynald is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Raynald rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1940 (8)
Years since peak
85
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,823
1940

Spellings of Raynald

Raynald is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 95.7% against Raynald's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Raynald around the world

Where Raynald ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1911–2006
    #4,378
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Raynald by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,823
1940
Peak year
1940
8 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raynald

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Raynald

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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