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Reynold

#10,443 in 2025Boys' name

Decision, advice, counsel + ruler, through *Raginawaldaz

Reynold has been given to 4,672 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #10,443 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Reynold, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reynold: meaning, origin, and history

Decision, advice, counsel + ruler, through *Raginawaldaz

Germanic languages

What Reynold means

Reynold belongs to the name family reached through Reynold → *Raginawaldaz. Its meaning is “decision, advice, counsel + ruler”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Anglo-Norman Reinald, from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz brought to England by Normans and partly merged with the earlier equivalent Ronald, from Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr. Doublet of Renault.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Reynold (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Reynold is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Reynold comes through Anglo-Norman Reinald, Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz and Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr.

Reynold is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *Raginawaldaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Reynold is pronounced /ˈɹɛnəld/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,672 boys were recorded with the name Reynold between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1922; its best national rank was #591 in 1903.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,946 in 2020 to #10,443 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,389 in 2015 to #10,443 in 2025.

How common is Reynold?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,443
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reynold 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reynold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reynolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reynold was born before 1944 — so the typical Reynold is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (748).

Is Reynold 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
+1,596
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,497
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,054
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.6%
Peak was 1922 (92)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
1903

Spellings of Reynold

Reynold is not the most common spelling — Reynaldo is, with 63.8% against Reynold's 14.5%.

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 Reynold is used

Across 1910–2025, Reynold was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 73,069 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 7,692
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 14,286
  3. 3Maine1 in 16,667
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Reynold around the world

Where Reynold 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
    2015–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1947–1988
    #2,937
    in 1988
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1944–1950
    #318
    in 1950

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Reynold

People whose public names include Reynold, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Reynold in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Reynold. Linked forms have their own page here.

RenaudReginaldReginaldo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Reynold by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,443
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,497
Best rank ever
#591
1903
Peak year
1922
92 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,672
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Reynold

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

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Names with a curve like Reynold

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Reynold, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Reynold

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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