Reinaldo

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Reinaldo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name235K records spelled Reinaldo6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Řěîňâľďô

• a separate given name21K records spelled Reinaldo2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Reináldo

• Spanish given name946 records spelled Reinaldo91 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Mexico, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian

  Also written Reynaldo, Рейнальдо, Рейналдо

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Reinaldo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Reynold

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Reinaldo Gornob. 1918ARathletics competitor (1918–1994)
• Reinaldo Arenasb. 1943CUCuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
• Reinaldo Merlob. 1950ARArgentine footballer (born 1950)
• Reinaldo Ruedab. 1957COColombian football coach
• Reinaldo Azambujab. 1963BRBrazilian agriculturist and politician
• Reinaldo Vicente Simãob. 1968BRBrazilian association football player
• Reinaldob. 1979BRBrazilian association football player
• Tsugio Satob. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian and Japanese former baseball player
• Reinaldo Marcus Greenb. 1981USAmerican director and filmmaker (born 1981)
• Reinaldo Alagoanob. 1986BRBrazilian association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 716 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Reinaldo?

We estimate roughly 132 thousand people bear Reinaldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Reinaldo have the most bearers?

Reinaldo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled reinaldo.

How common is Reinaldo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Reinaldo is the 452nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Reinaldo a male or female name?

Reinaldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Reinaldo mean?

Recorded meaning: Germanic. See }Reynold in main dictionary.