Reynold
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reynold is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud.
- GYGuyana1 in 8.5K◐
- HTHaiti1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 110K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.3K ●
- Sources
- 96 ●
- 1 in 8.5K ◐
across 8 countries
1.3K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,012△ | 515 rec. | 1 in 110K | 3K | Reynold | 55 |
| FR France | — | 618 | 583 rec. | — | 9 | Reynold | 96 |
| PH Philippines | — | 124 | 39 rec. | — | 17K | Reynold | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 88 | — | 1 in 8.5K | 88 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 81△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 213K | 81 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 60 | — | 1 in 3.5M | 60 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 42 | 43 rec. | — | 1 | Reynold | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 28 | — | 1 in 182K | 28 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 21△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | Reynold | 1 |
| HT Haiti | #118 | 15 | 1 rec. | — | listed | Reynold | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14 | 18 rec. | — | listed | Reynold | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 9 | 10 rec. | — | — | Reynold | 6 |
Roughly 3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 110K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English57K67%
- Spanish12K14%
- Indonesian3.7K4%
- French1.3K2%
- 1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 56,842 | 67% |
| Spanish | 11,718 | 14% |
| Indonesian | 3,711 | 4% |
| French | 1,346 | 2% |
| 1,140 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Reynold is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OFr Reinald/Reynaud, from OG Raginald 'counsel-might'; first attested Willelmus filius Rainaldi 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, Germanic name 'counsel' + 'rule'; variant of Renaud/Reginald.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Reinold/Reynold 'hart/stark'; Belege seit 12. Jh.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In English, Germanic name meaning 'advice, power'
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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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1893 | 5 |
| 1895 | 7 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1899 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 15 |
| 1904 | 5 |
| 1905 | 7 |
| 1906 | 7 |
| 1907 | 7 |
| 1908 | 6 |
| 1909 | 13 |
| 1910 | 15 |
| 1911 | 9 |
| 1912 | 34 |
| 1913 | 51 |
| 1914 | 48 |
| 1915 | 77 |
| 1916 | 80 |
| 1917 | 71 |
| 1918 | 65 |
| 1919 | 68 |
| 1920 | 73 |
| 1921 | 83 |
| 1922 | 92 |
| 1923 | 90 |
| 1924 | 76 |
| 1925 | 78 |
| 1926 | 68 |
| 1927 | 54 |
| 1928 | 74 |
| 1929 | 60 |
| 1930 | 77 |
| 1931 | 68 |
| 1932 | 54 |
| 1933 | 78 |
| 1934 | 62 |
| 1935 | 55 |
| 1936 | 60 |
| 1937 | 82 |
| 1938 | 71 |
| 1939 | 69 |
| 1940 | 68 |
| 1941 | 61 |
| 1942 | 70 |
| 1943 | 62 |
| 1944 | 68 |
| 1945 | 64 |
| 1946 | 87 |
| 1947 | 61 |
| 1948 | 53 |
| 1949 | 72 |
| 1950 | 91 |
| 1951 | 48 |
| 1952 | 62 |
| 1953 | 68 |
| 1954 | 76 |
| 1955 | 75 |
| 1956 | 50 |
| 1957 | 37 |
| 1958 | 60 |
| 1959 | 63 |
| 1960 | 51 |
| 1961 | 58 |
| 1962 | 35 |
| 1963 | 52 |
| 1964 | 48 |
| 1965 | 32 |
| 1966 | 57 |
| 1967 | 43 |
| 1968 | 34 |
| 1969 | 38 |
| 1970 | 31 |
| 1971 | 36 |
| 1972 | 24 |
| 1973 | 32 |
| 1974 | 26 |
| 1975 | 26 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 24 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 32 |
| 1981 | 28 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 21 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 19 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 17 |
| 1992 | 18 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 128 years between 1893–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Reginald Cobhamb. 1295GBnot in their usual nameEnglish noble
- Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthynb. 1322not in their usual nameEnglish noble
- Reynold Cobhamb. 1381English gentry in south-east England (1381–1446)
- Reynold A. Nicholsonb. 1868GBBritish orientalist (1868–1945)
- Reynold C. Fusonb. 1895USAmerican chemist
- Reynold B. Johnsonb. 1906USAmerican inventor and computer pioneer (1906–1998)
- Reynold Brownb. 1917USAmerican artist noted particularly for movie posters. (1917-1991)
- Reynold Ruffinsb. 1930USAmerican artist (1930–2021)
- Reynoldh Furustrandb. 1942SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Reynold Cheruiyotb. 2004KEKenyan athlete
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●
Attested in 56 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 213 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Reynold?
- We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Reynold (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Reynold have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.0 thousand people bear Reynold in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled reynold.
- Where is Reynold most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reynold is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Reynold compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Reynold is the 118th most common given name of 608 given names recorded there.
- Is Reynold a male or female name?
- Reynold 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 Reynold mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Reynold” — the 118th most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.