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Reily vs Reinaldo

American parents have registered 3,941 Reinaldos since 1880, against 902 Reilys. Reinaldo is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reily against Reinaldo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reily Reinaldo

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 103 years in which either name was published, Reinaldo for 92 years and Reily for 11 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Reily Reinaldo
Total US births 9023,941
Most in one year 8288
Babies in 2025 514
Estimated living today 8903,400
Median age today 1943
Peak year 20061963
Best rank 2,398th boys807th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,143rd
First recorded 19921912
Girls / boys 366 / 5360 / 3,941

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 Reinaldos alive today are over 43; half the Reilys are over 19. That is 24 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: Reily and Reinaldo.