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Reyes vs Reynard

American parents have registered 6,690 Reyeses since 1880, against 715 Reynards. Reyes is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reyes against Reynard, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reyes Reynard

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

Reyes has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Reyes had 40 and Reynard had 16.

Side by side

  Reyes Reynard
Total US births 6,690715
Most in one year 10118
Babies in 2025 42under 5
Estimated living today 4,800560
Median age today 3545
Peak year 19991964
Best rank 1,235th boys1,900th boys
Rank in 2025 2,941stunranked
First recorded 18981915
Girls / boys 711 / 5,9790 / 715

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 Reynards alive today are over 45; half the Reyeses are over 35. That is 10 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 Reyes Reynard
England and Wales 287

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: Reyes and Reynard.