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Reyna vs Reynolds

American parents have registered 18,679 Reynas since 1880, against 1,805 Reynoldses. Reyna is still ahead, with 493 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reyna Reynolds

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 121 years in which either name was published, Reyna for 72 years and Reynolds for 49 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Reyna Reynolds
Total US births 18,6791,805
Most in one year 54337
Babies in 2025 49326
Estimated living today 18,000980
Median age today 2036
Peak year 20241923
Best rank 559th girls1,275th boys
Rank in 2025 594th5,208th
First recorded 19131888
Girls / boys 18,647 / 32131 / 1,674

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 Reynoldses alive today are over 36; half the Reynas are over 20. That is 16 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: Reyna and Reynolds.