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Reinhard

Boys' name

Decision, advice, counsel + hard, brave, through *Raginaharduz

Reinhard has been given to 435 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1916, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Reinhard, 1998

1 in 735,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reinhard: meaning, origin, and history

Decision, advice, counsel + hard, brave, through *Raginaharduz

Middle High German

What Reinhard means

Reinhard belongs to the name family reached through Reinhard → *Raginaharduz. Its meaning is “decision, advice, counsel + hard, brave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Reinhard is used in German. Its origins include Middle High German.

Reinhard comes through Middle High German Reinhart, Old High German Reginhart and Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reynard and *Raginaharduz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Reinhard is pronounced /ˈʁaɪ̯nhaʁt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 435 boys were recorded with the name Reinhard between 1895 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,056 in 1895.

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 Reinhard?

Reinhard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 382,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reinhard 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 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reinhard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reinhards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reinhard was born before 1930 — so the typical Reinhard is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
157
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1910s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Reinhard 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 1916 (17)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,056
1895

Spellings of Reinhard

Reinhard is not the most common spelling — Richard is, with 99.7% against Reinhard's 0.02%.

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 Reinhard is used

Across 1910–2025, Reinhard was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,032,824 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Reinhard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reinhard around the world

Where Reinhard 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
    1900–1952
    #1,122
    in 1952
  • South Australia
    1954–1964
    #557
    in 1964

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.

Reinhard 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
#1,056
1895
Peak year
1916
17 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
435
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reinhard

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

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Sibling names for Reinhard

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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