Reinhold
Reinhold was last recorded in 1988, when 7 babies were given it; 1,431 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reinhold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Reinhold mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Reinhold is “a male given name from Old High German”
From Old High German Raginald, from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz; see there for cognates and further etymology. The replacement of earlier -old by -hold is secondary and probably due to association with the Middle High German holt (“friendly, loyal”). The first element, originally ragin-/regin-, may now be identified with rein (“pure”) through folk etymology. This name was popularised by various heroic figures of medieval legend, particularly from the Dietrich von Bern cycle, such as Reinhold von Montalban (The Four Sons of Aymon), Reinhold von Meilan (The Dietrich Saga), and Saint Reinhold von Köln.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Reinhold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,277, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1917, the peak
Reinhold peaked in 1917, when 72 boys were given it, #737 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 7 | #6,277 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,867 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,058 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,612 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,040 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,469 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,535 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,944 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,299 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 11 | #2,654 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,529 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,504 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,890 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,466 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,801 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,711 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,476 | 5.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,094 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,200 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,751 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,334 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,375 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,251 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,368 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,698 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,121 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,069 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,785 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,262 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,801 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,307 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,947 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,822 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,654 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,445 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,539 | 21.1 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,483 | 22.1 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,110 | 36.5 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,405 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,247 | 30.7 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,458 | 24.0 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,274 | 29.7 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,198 | 32.3 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,321 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,314 | 28.3 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,157 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 51 | #989 | 46.3 |
| 1920 | 58 | #908 | 54.5 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,137 | 38.8 |
| 1918 | 62 | #839 | 61.2 |
| 1917 | 72 | #737 | 77.8 |
| 1916 | 59 | #807 | 66.3 |
| 1915 | 65 | #747 | 76.6 |
| 1914 | 50 | #749 | 76.4 |
| 1913 | 41 | #733 | 80.0 |
| 1912 | 32 | #779 | 74.4 |
| 1911 | 18 | #787 | 79.7 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,102 | 51.5 |
| 1909 | 13 | #832 | 79.3 |
| 1908 | 12 | #815 | 77.8 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,312 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 9 | #911 | 67.6 |
| 1905 | 11 | #780 | 83.1 |
| 1904 | 10 | #801 | 78.1 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,002 | 57.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,179 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,280 | 39.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,174 | 47.1 |
| 1897 | 9 | #775 | 79.8 |
| 1896 | 10 | #766 | 83.6 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,057 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 7 | #933 | 60.5 |
| 1893 | 7 | #893 | 62.3 |
| 1892 | 7 | #934 | 57.4 |
| 1891 | 7 | #826 | 69.2 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,125 | 45.0 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,040 | 49.3 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,067 | 46.4 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,091 | 43.7 |
| 1883 | 8 | #712 | 76.5 |
| 1882 | 10 | #638 | 88.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reinhold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reinhold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reinhold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reinhold, and how old are they?
An estimated 171 Americans named Reinhold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 714 people named Reinhold (1 woman or girl, 713 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Reinhold born?
The states with the most babies named Reinhold are North Dakota, Wisconsin and Illinois, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; North Dakota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 132 | not ranked | 14.9× |
| Wisconsin | 87 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Dakota | 34 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Michigan | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Nebraska | 18 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Reinhold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reinhold is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1910 it was given 14.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Reinhold with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,221 babies since 1880, Reinhold is the second most given (23% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reinhold
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Reinhold and names like it
- Compare Reinhold and ReynoldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sReinhold peaked in 1917.
- North Dakota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reinhold since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Reinhold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Reinhold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.