Reinhart

#13,451 in 2025Boys' name

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

Reinhart has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #13,451 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Reinhart, 2025

1 in 663,000

Reinhart over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reinhart: meaning, origin, and history

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

Middle High German

What Reinhart means

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

Origin, language, and formation

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

Reinhart 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.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 boys were recorded with the name Reinhart between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,180 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,689 in 2020 to #13,451 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 Reinhart?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #13,451; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Reinhart 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reinhart. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reinharts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reinhart was born before 1921 — so the typical Reinhart is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 7.7%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Reinhart 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,762; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 33.3%; Peak was 1924 (15)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,180; 1907

Reinhart around the world

Where Reinhart 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.

South Australia
1961–1961
#561
in 1961

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Reinhart by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #13,451
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,762
Best rank ever: #1,180; 1907
Peak year: 1924; 15 that year
First recorded: 1907
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 207
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Reinhart

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

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Sibling names for Reinhart

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

For a sister

Kattie Concepcion Vina Charline Idella Mozelle Ima Bernadine

For a brother

Delmer Eldridge Lenard Dewitt Frances Trinidad Granville Loyd

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