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Reiley vs Reinhold

American parents have registered 1,431 Reinholds since 1880, against 942 Reileys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reiley against Reinhold, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reiley Reinhold

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 114 years in which either name was published, Reinhold for 83 years and Reiley for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Reiley Reinhold
Total US births 9421,431
Most in one year 5872
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 930180
Median age today 2071
Peak year 19981917
Best rank 3,301st girls723rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19911882
Girls / boys 618 / 3240 / 1,431

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 Reinholds alive today are over 71; half the Reileys are over 20. That is 51 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: Reiley and Reinhold.