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Reid vs Reinhart

American parents have registered 41,783 Reids since 1880, against 207 Reinharts. Reid is still ahead, with 1,184 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reid against Reinhart, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reid 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

Reid has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1907, when Reid had 9 and Reinhart had 7.

Side by side

  Reid Reinhart
Total US births 41,783207
Most in one year 1,46415
Babies in 2025 1,1845
Estimated living today 38,00020
Median age today 155
Peak year 20141924
Best rank 260th boys2,132nd boys
Rank in 2025 293rd12,008th
First recorded 18861907
Girls / boys 992 / 40,7910 / 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 Reids alive today are over 15; half the Reinharts are over 5. That is 10 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: Reid and Reinhart.