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Reiner

#4,503 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Rayner

Reiner has been given to 346 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #4,503 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Reiner, 2025

1 in 144,000

Reiner 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reiner: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rayner

German, Germanic languages and Old High German

What Reiner means

Reiner is a form of Rayner.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Reiner → Rayner. The family’s meaning is “advice, counsel, decision + army”, recorded in the naming reference for Rayner.

Origin, language, and formation

Reiner is used in English and German. Its origins include German, Germanic languages and Old High German.

Reiner comes through German Reiner.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayner, Rainer and Ragnar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Reiner is pronounced /ˈɹaɪ.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 346 boys were recorded with the name Reiner between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,858 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,578 in 2020 to #4,503 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,989 in 2015 to #4,503 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Reiner?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,503
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reiner 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reiner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reiners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reiner was born before 2015 — so the typical Reiner is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
346
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Reiner 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
−919
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,075
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,486
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.9%
Peak was 2024 (32)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,858
1961

Spellings of Reiner

Reiner is not the most common spelling — Rene is, with 45.9% against Reiner's 0.31%.

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.

Where Reiner is used

Across 1910–2025, Reiner was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 947,390 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Reiner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reiner around the world

Where Reiner 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
    1943–1944
    #589
    in 1944
  • South Australia
    1958–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Reiner by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,503
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,075
Best rank ever
#2,858
1961
Peak year
2024
32 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
346
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Reiner

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

ReissWagnerRaynerReileyReidenDannerHunnerKennerJennerRennerWinnerJoynerReinhartBannerAvnerReinReisKeynerReinhardtReilyEinerRainerReiReilly

Sibling names for Reiner

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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