Given name & surname · also French, Germanic
Reynard
“resembling a fox”·“a strong counselor”
Reynard is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “resembling a fox” and “a strong counselor”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original GermanReinhard
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “resembling a fox” and “a strong counselor”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Its Germanic formation brings together ragin (“advice, decision”) and hard (“hardy, brave, strong”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reynard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 715
- 715 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 18 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 530 as a first name in 2020; 1,004 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reynard’s family of names
Reynard shares a linguistic root with Reinhard. Reynard has a related form in Raynard. Reynard has a related form in Renard.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Reynard has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Reinhardtvariant
- Reinhartvariant · German
- Reynaudvariant
- Rennardvariant
- Renardovariant
- Renardvariant
- Reinhardvariant · German
- Raynardvariant
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Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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