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Reilly vs Reinhart

American parents have registered 10,088 Reillys since 1880, against 207 Reinharts. Reilly is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reilly Reinhart

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 72 years in which either name was published, Reilly for 52 years and Reinhart for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Reilly Reinhart
Total US births 10,088207
Most in one year 54315
Babies in 2025 1085
Estimated living today 9,90020
Median age today 215
Peak year 19981924
Best rank 623rd girls2,132nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,822nd12,008th
First recorded 19531907
Girls / boys 5,528 / 4,5600 / 207

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 Reillys alive today are over 21; half the Reinharts are over 5. That is 16 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 Reinhart.