Given name
Reynald
“the king's advisor”
Reynald is a variant of Reynold. In English use, Reynold carries the interpretation “the king's advisor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Reynald is a variant of Reynold. In English use, Reynold carries the interpretation “the king's advisor.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reynald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 151
- 151 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 10 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 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 545 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.
Reynald’s family of names
Reynald has a related form in Reynold.
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 Reynald
- Reynald PedrosFrench football manager (born 1971)
- Reynald Lemaîtrefootballerborn 1983
- Reynald SecherFrench historian and writerborn 1955
- Reynald TemariiTahitian footballer and politician (born 1967)
- Reynald SeznecFrench businessmanborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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