Reinold

Boys' name

Pure

Reinold has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1924, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Reinold, 1938

1 in 443,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reinold: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

Old High German

What Reinold means

Reinold means “pure”, associated with rein.

Origin, language, and formation

Reinold is used in German. Its origins include Old High German.

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Reinold between 1918 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,978 in 1924.

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 Reinold?

Reinold had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938: 1 in 443,000; 5 of 2,212,569 births
Among boys only: 1 in 222,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1938: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 306,728 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Reinold 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 1938 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 306,728 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reinold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reinolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reinold was born before 1925 — so the typical Reinold is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 65.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 65.5% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Reinold 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: 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: 0%; Peak was 1924 (10)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,978; 1924

Spellings of Reinold

Reinold is not the most common spelling — Reginald is, with 88.2% against Reinold's 0.04%.

Reginald88.2%111,551
Reynold3.7%4,672
Reinaldo3.1%3,941
Reynolds1.3%1,674
Reinhold1.1%1,431
Ronold0.68%865
Reino0.56%711
Raynold0.47%597

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.

Reinold around the world

Where Reinold 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
1943–1966
#895
in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Reinold 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: #2,978; 1924
Peak year: 1924; 10 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 1938
All-time count: 55
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Reinold

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

Reinier Reiden Reinhold Reichen Reilley Reinhart Reinald Reiner Hearold Reiss Reicher Jearold Reigan Reigns Reider Reinhardt Reidar Gerrold Rein Vitold Jarrold Renold Derold Witold

Sibling names for Reinold

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 Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell Dorris Leonora Hellen

For a brother

Alvis Eldridge Merritt Lacy Delmer Wilton Elwin Domenick

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