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Reilly vs Reinhard

American parents have registered 10,088 Reillys since 1880, against 435 Reinhards. Reilly is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reilly against Reinhard, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reilly Reinhard

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 98 years in which either name was published, Reilly for 51 years and Reinhard for 47 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Reilly Reinhard
Total US births 10,088435
Most in one year 54317
Babies in 2025 108under 5
Estimated living today 9,900130
Median age today 2164
Peak year 19981916
Best rank 623rd girls1,771st boys
Rank in 2025 2,822ndunranked
First recorded 19531895
Girls / boys 5,528 / 4,5600 / 435

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 Reinhards alive today are over 64; half the Reillys are over 21. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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