# Reinhold (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/reinhold/  
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 | 1,431 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,431 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 12 | 2,467 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,891 |
| 1958 | 7 | 3,505 |
| 1959 | 7 | 3,530 |
| 1960 | 11 | 2,655 |
| 1961 | 8 | 3,300 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,945 |
| 1964 | 7 | 3,536 |
| 1965 | 5 | 4,318 |
| 1966 | 7 | 3,470 |
| 1968 | 6 | 4,041 |
| 1970 | 6 | 4,614 |
| 1980 | 5 | 7,060 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,874 |
| 1988 | 7 | 6,284 |

## People named Reinhold

- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg (1803–1882)
- Reinhold Niebuhr, American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
- Johann Reinhold Forster, German naturalist (1729–1798)
- Reinhold Mitterlehner, Austrian politician
- Reinhold Schünzel, actor and director (1888-1954)
- Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, German biologist (1776-1837)
- Reinhold Mack, German music producer and audio engineer (born 1949)
- Reinhold Münzenberg, German footballer (1909-1986)
- Reinhold Ewald, German astronaut
- Johann Reinhold von Patkul, Baltic German nobleman and politician (1660–1707)
- Reinhold Durnthaler, Austrian bobsledder (1942-2017)
- Reinhold Hintermaier, Austrian footballer

## 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.