# Reinhard (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/reinhard/  
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 | 435 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 435 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 8 | 3,198 |
| 1958 | 13 | 2,343 |
| 1959 | 15 | 2,178 |
| 1960 | 8 | 3,277 |
| 1961 | 11 | 2,669 |
| 1962 | 10 | 2,808 |
| 1963 | 9 | 3,006 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3,945 |
| 1965 | 10 | 2,733 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,849 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3,527 |
| 1971 | 5 | 5,492 |
| 1980 | 5 | 7,059 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,989 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,948 |

## People named Reinhard

- Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1
- Reinhard Genzel, German astronomer
- Reinhard Selten, German economist (1930-2016)
- Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (1863-1928)
- Reinhard Gehlen, German general, Nazi, spy (1902-1979)
- Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (1943-1996)
- Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer (1674–1739)
- Reinhard Häfner, German association football player and manager (1952–2016)
- Reinhard Furrer, German astronaut (1940-1995)
- Reinhard Lauck, German footballer (1946–1997)
- Reinhard Eiben, East German canoe racer
- Reinhard Mohn, German businessman and philanthropist (1921–2009)

## 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.