# Reinaldo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/reinaldo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,941 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,941 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,382 |
| 2012 | 33 | 3,347 |
| 2013 | 21 | 4,580 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,823 |
| 2015 | 18 | 5,238 |
| 2016 | 16 | 5,736 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7,443 |
| 2018 | 21 | 4,707 |
| 2019 | 18 | 5,299 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,644 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,507 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,176 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,410 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,844 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,369 |

## People named Reinaldo

- Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
- Reinaldo, Brazilian association football player
- Reinaldo Vicente Simão, Brazilian association football player
- Reinaldo Alagoano, Brazilian association football player
- Reinaldo Rueda, Colombian football coach
- Reinaldo Gorno, athletics competitor (1918–1994)
- Reinaldo Navia, Chilean footballer (born 1978)
- Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
- Reinaldo Azambuja, Brazilian agriculturist and politician
- Reinaldo Manoel da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- Reinaldo Elias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
- Reinaldo Marcus Green, American director and filmmaker (born 1981)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.