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Reinhold vs Reis

American parents have registered 1,431 Reinholds since 1880, against 933 Reises. But in 2025 it was Reis that was commoner, 10 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reinhold Reis

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 82 years and Reis for 39 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Reinhold Reis
Total US births 1,431933
Most in one year 7246
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 180920
Median age today 7119
Peak year 19172000
Best rank 723rd boys2,196th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 18821982
Girls / boys 0 / 1,431121 / 812

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 Reises 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Reinhold Reis
France 150180

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: Reinhold and Reis.