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Reinaldo vs Reinhard

American parents have registered 3,941 Reinaldos since 1880, against 435 Reinhards. Reinaldo is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reinaldo 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 116 years in which either name was published, Reinaldo for 94 years and Reinhard for 22 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Reinaldo Reinhard
Total US births 3,941435
Most in one year 8817
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 3,400130
Median age today 4364
Peak year 19631916
Best rank 807th boys1,771st boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rdunranked
First recorded 19121895
Girls / boys 0 / 3,9410 / 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 Reinaldos are over 43. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Reinaldo Reinhard
France 3075

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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