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Reinhold

Boys' name

Possibly friendly, loyal

Reinhold has been given to 1,431 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1917, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Reinhold, 1988

1 in 528,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reinhold: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly friendly, loyal

Old High German

What Reinhold means

Reinhold may mean “friendly, loyal”, associated with holt.

Origin, language, and formation

Reinhold is used in German and Swedish. Its origins include Old High German.

Reinhold comes through Old High German Raginald and Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,431 boys were recorded with the name Reinhold between 1882 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 72 in 1917; its best national rank was #638 in 1882.

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 Reinhold?

Reinhold had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 528,000
7 of 3,694,212 births
Among boys only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
365,806 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reinhold 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 1988 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 365,806 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reinhold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reinholds were born

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

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
138
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1910s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (447).

Is Reinhold 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 1917 (72)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#638
1882

Spellings of Reinhold

Reinhold is not the most common spelling — Reynold is, with 70.5% against Reinhold's 21.6%.

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 Reinhold is used

Across 1910–2025, Reinhold was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 141,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 4,545
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 16,667
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kansas1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 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. Reinhold has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reinhold around the world

Where Reinhold 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
    1900–1951
    #688
    in 1951
  • South Australia
    1944–1974
    #455
    in 1974

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.

Reinhold 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
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Best rank ever
#638
1882
Peak year
1917
72 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
1,431
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reinhold

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

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Sibling names for Reinhold

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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