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Rin vs Rinaldo

American parents have registered 722 Rinaldos since 1880, against 516 Rins. But in 2025 it was Rin that was commoner, 65 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rin Rinaldo

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 94 years in which either name was published, Rinaldo for 71 years and Rin for 23 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Rin Rinaldo
Total US births 516722
Most in one year 6523
Babies in 2025 65under 5
Estimated living today 510290
Median age today 557
Peak year 20251923
Best rank 3,577th girls1,589th boys
Rank in 2025 3,577thunranked
First recorded 19831912
Girls / boys 419 / 970 / 722

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 Rinaldos alive today are over 57; half the Rins are over 5. 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 Rin Rinaldo
France 10310

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: Rin and Rinaldo.