Reinhardt
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From a Germanic male personal name meaning literally ‘counsel-brave’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Reinhardt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 7.3Kfew records
- IEIreland≈1 in 18Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Reinhardt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 365 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a Germanic male personal name meaning literally ‘counsel-brave’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Reinhardt is read
(measured from records)Reinhardt is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
From a Germanic male personal name meaning literally ‘counsel-brave’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German27%
Patronymic from Reinhard (ahd./as. *ragin, regin ‘Rat, Beschluss’); plate shows h/Ø variation, with h-forms mostly nominative and Ø-forms mostly genitive. Bearer count: 17180.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Patronym zu Rufname mit ahd./altsächs. *ragin, regin ‘Rat, Beschluss’ + ahd. hardi/herti, altsächs. hard ‘hart, stark’.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymische FamN zu Rufnamen mit ahd. hard 'hart, stark'; zeigt Auslautvarianz dt/d/t nach r. 64 Typen/96.626 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Aus ahd. ragin/regen- 'Rat' + hart 'hart, stark'; Typ mit dt-Schreibung; 96.626 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Aus dem Rufnamen Reinhard/Reinhard (Rein- + -hard 'stark, kühn'); Patronym.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Reinhardt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #131 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Reinhardt | 192 |
| US United States | — | 12,057 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Reinhardt | 365 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,182as Reinhard | 1 in 3.9K | 2.2K | Reinhardt | 48 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Reinhardt | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 142 | Reinhardt | 73 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Reinhardt | 33 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #176 | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Reinhardt | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Walther Reinhardtb. 1872DEGerman general (1872-1930)
- Max Reinhardtb. 1873ATAustrian-American theater director and actor (1873-1943)
- Georg-Hans Reinhardtb. 1887DEGerman general and war criminal (1887–1963)
- Wolfgang Reinhardtb. 1908ATGerman film producer and screenwriter (1908–1979)
- Elizabeth Reinhardtb. 1909USAmerican screenwriter
- Django Reinhardtb. 1910FRRomani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910–1953)
- Gottfried Reinhardtb. 1911USAustrian-American film director
- Ad Reinhardtb. 1913USAmerican painter and printmaker (1913–1967)
- Wolfgang Reinhardtb. 1943DEGerman pole vaulter (1943-2011)
- Babik Reinhardtb. 1944FRFrench musician (1944–2001)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,973 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,178 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 697 | #1,817 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 142 | #26,496 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Reinhardt mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Germanic male personal name meaning literally ‘counsel-brave’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Reinhardt?
- In the etymology graph, Renard, Reynard and Rainard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Reinhardt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Reinhardt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reinhardt.
- How common is the name Reinhardt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,057 people named Reinhardt in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Reinhardt compared with other names?
- In Germany, Reinhardt is the 131st most common surname of 765,306 surnames 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, “Reinhardt” — the 131st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.