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Reiko vs Reinhold

American parents have registered 1,431 Reinholds since 1880, against 690 Reikos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reiko against Reinhold, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reiko Reinhold

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Reinhold for 73 years and Reiko for 58 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Reiko Reinhold
Total US births 6901,431
Most in one year 2972
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 540180
Median age today 4271
Peak year 19751917
Best rank 3,052nd girls723rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211882
Girls / boys 671 / 190 / 1,431

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Reinholds alive today are over 71; half the Reikos are over 42. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Reiko and Reinhold.