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Reinaldo vs Reine

American parents have registered 3,941 Reinaldos since 1880, against 527 Reines. But in 2025 it was Reine that was commoner, 15 babies to 14.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reinaldo Reine

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 110 years in which either name was published, Reinaldo for 94 years and Reine for 16 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Reinaldo Reine
Total US births 3,941527
Most in one year 8824
Babies in 2025 1415
Estimated living today 3,400440
Median age today 4315
Peak year 19632024
Best rank 807th boys5,300th girls
Rank in 2025 6,143rd7,133rd
First recorded 19121888
Girls / boys 0 / 3,941527 / 0

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 Reinaldos alive today are over 43; half the Reines are over 15. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Reinaldo Reine
France 3034,185

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Reinaldo and Reine.