Given name
Reinald
“the king's advisor”
Reinald is a variant of Reginald. One Latin interpretation is “the king's advisor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Reinald is a variant of Reginald. One Latin interpretation is “the king's advisor.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Reinald is a variant of Reginald. An origin associated with Reginald is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reinald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1953. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 98 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reinald’s family of names
Reinald has a related form in Reginald. In Catalan usage, Reinald has a conventional equivalent in the English form Reynold. In German usage, Reinald has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Рейнгольд.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Reinald
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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