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Reily vs Reinhold

American parents have registered 1,431 Reinholds since 1880, against 902 Reilys. But in 2025 it was Reily that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reily 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 Reily for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Reily Reinhold
Total US births 9021,431
Most in one year 8272
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 890180
Median age today 1971
Peak year 20061917
Best rank 2,398th boys723rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19921882
Girls / boys 366 / 5360 / 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 Reilys are over 19. That is 52 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: Reily and Reinhold.