Reynolds

At the 2020 census, 191,703 Americans bore the surname Reynolds — 125th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,559.

By the numbers

People: 191,703
Rank: 125th
How common: 1 in 1,559
Per 100,000: 64.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Reynolds described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds (born 1976)Canadian-American actor and entrepreneur
Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016)American actress, singer, and dancer
Burt Reynolds (1936–2018)American actor
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)English painter
Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)Anglo-Irish innovator
Dan Reynolds (born 1987)American singer
Kim Reynolds (born 1959)Governor of Iowa since 2017
Albert Reynolds (1932–2014)Irish politician and prime minister

People named Reynolds with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Reynolds

Also a first name

Reynolds has been given to 1,805 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.