Reinhard
Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian and Swedish given name and surname, and a spelling variant of Reinhardt and Reinhart.
- German
- Germanic
Meaning & Origin of Reinhard
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian and Swedish given name and surname, and a spelling variant of Reinhardt and Reinhart.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- German
- Germanic
The Story of Reinhard
Reinhard first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1895, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1916: 17 births, good for #1,771 nationwide. About 23% of every Reinhard on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Reinhard last appeared in the published SSA data in 1998, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 435 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Reinhard
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Reinhard. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Raginhard
- Rainard
- Reinhardt
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About the name Reinhard
Reinhard is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1895 and has accumulated 435 births in the dataset. Reinhard's peak popularity came in 1916 when it ranked #1,771. Use the chart and map above to compare Reinhard's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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