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Reinier

#13,452 in 2025Boys' name

Decision, advice, counsel + commander, through *Raginaharjaz

Reinier has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #13,452 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Reinier, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reinier: meaning, origin, and history

Decision, advice, counsel + commander, through *Raginaharjaz

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reinier means

Reinier belongs to the name family reached through Reinier → *Raginaharjaz. Its meaning is “decision, advice, counsel + commander”.

Origin, language, and formation

Reinier is used in Dutch.

Reinier comes through Middle Dutch Reynier, Old French Reinier, Proto-West Germanic *Raginahari and Proto-Germanic *Raginaharjaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *Raginaharjaz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 boys were recorded with the name Reinier between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,228 in 1992.

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.

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How common is Reinier?

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
#13,452
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reinier 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 Reinier. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reiniers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reinier was born before 2017 — so the typical Reinier is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
44
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Reinier 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
−1,419
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2007 (8)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,228
1992

Spellings of Reinier

Reinier is not the most common spelling — Rainer is, with 33.3% against Reinier's 1.2%.

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.

Reinier around the world

Where Reinier 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Reinier by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,452
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,228
1992
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Reinier

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

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Sibling names for Reinier

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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