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Reine vs Reinhold

American parents have registered 1,431 Reinholds since 1880, against 527 Reines. But in 2025 it was Reine that was commoner, 15 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reine 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 121 years in which either name was published, Reinhold for 75 years and Reine for 46 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

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

Side by side

  Reine Reinhold
Total US births 5271,431
Most in one year 2472
Babies in 2025 15under 5
Estimated living today 440180
Median age today 1571
Peak year 20241917
Best rank 5,300th girls723rd boys
Rank in 2025 7,133rdunranked
First recorded 18881882
Girls / boys 527 / 00 / 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 Reines are over 15. That is 56 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 Reine Reinhold
France 34,185150

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: Reine and Reinhold.