Reynold
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reynold is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud.
- GYGuyana1 in 8.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 110K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,025 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reynold counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,025 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Reynold | 49 |
| GY Guyana | — | 88 | 1 in 8.5K | 88 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 81 | 1 in 213K | 81 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 60 | 1 in 3.5M | 60 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 28 | 1 in 182K | 28 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| HT Haiti | #253 | — | — | listed | Reynold | 5 |
3,025 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the ht-potomitan-names register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Reynold is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OFr Reinald/Reynaud, from OG Raginald 'counsel-might'; first attested Willelmus filius Rainaldi 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, Germanic name 'counsel' + 'rule'; variant of Renaud/Reginald.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Reinold/Reynold 'hart/stark'; Belege seit 12. Jh.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In English, Germanic name meaning 'advice, power'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Reginald Cobhamb. 1295GBnot in their usual nameEnglish noble
- Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthynb. 1322not in their usual nameEnglish noble
- Reynold Cobhamb. 1381English gentry in south-east England (1381–1446)
- Reynold A. Nicholsonb. 1868GBBritish orientalist (1868–1945)
- Reynold C. Fusonb. 1895USAmerican chemist
- Reynold B. Johnsonb. 1906USAmerican inventor and computer pioneer (1906–1998)
- Reynold Brownb. 1917USAmerican artist noted particularly for movie posters. (1917-1991)
- Reynold Ruffinsb. 1930USAmerican artist (1930–2021)
- Reynoldh Furustrandb. 1942SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Reynold Cheruiyotb. 2004KEKenyan athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,603 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 88 | #506 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 81 | #5,021 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 60 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #58,763 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 38 | #13,796 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 35 | #36,292 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 28 | #4,698 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #5,603 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Reynold mean, and where does it come from?
- From the male personal name Reynold, from Old Norse Rognvaldr, later reinforced by Norman Reinald/Reynaud. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Reynold a male or female name?
- Reynold is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Reynold?
- In the etymology graph, Ronald, Reginald and Reynaldo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Reynold have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Reynold, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reynold.
- Where is Reynold most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reynold is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reynold?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,025 people named Reynold in 2020, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Reynold compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Reynold is the 253rd most common given name of 902 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Reynold” — the 253rd most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.