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Reynard

Boys' name

Fox

Reynard has been given to 715 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1964, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Reynard, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reynard: meaning, origin, and history

Fox

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reynard means

Reynard means “fox”, associated with renard.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Inherited from Middle English Renard, from Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Reynard is used in English.

Reynard comes through Middle English Renard, Old French renart, Middle Dutch Reynaerd and Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reinhard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Reynard is pronounced /ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 715 boys were recorded with the name Reynard between 1915 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,960 in 1964.

How common is Reynard?

Reynard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reynard 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reynard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reynards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reynard was born before 1974 — so the typical Reynard is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
598
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Reynard 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 1964 (18)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,960
1964

Spellings of Reynard

Reynard is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 52.2% against Reynard's 0.13%.

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 Reynard is used

Across 1910–2025, Reynard was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Reynard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reynard around the world

Where Reynard 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
    1998–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021

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

Reynard 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
#1,960
1964
Peak year
1964
18 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
715
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reynard

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

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Sibling names for Reynard

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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