How rare is the name Reinaldo?

8,958 people in the United States have the first name Reinaldo, about 1 in 33,716. It ranks #2,642 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

REINALDO

#2,642

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,958
About
1 in 33,716
This common or more
80.4%
Who bears it

Of the 8,958 people named Reinaldo, 93% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 4.5% as White and 1.6% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Reinaldo peaked in 1963, when 88 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19122025
Peak year
1963
Births that year
88
In 2025*
14 ▼84%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 3,941 babies have been given the name since 1912. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Reinaldo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #2,109. The largest share of babies named Reinaldo, 28.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#9,47512
1920s#6,57968
1930s#6,49551
1940s#5,34590
1950s#2,866363
1960s#2,109737
1970s#2,389701
1980s#2,639741
1990s#4,160517
2000s#6,544372
2010s#10,367207
2020s#13,26582
Greatest Generation 1901–271.5%
Silent Generation 1928–452.7%
Baby boom 1946–6420.2%
Generation X 1965–8028.7%
Millennials 1981–9626.9%
Generation Z 1997–1214.7%
2013 and later5.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Reinaldo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Reinaldo has been most common in New York (6.7×), Florida (5.1×), and New Jersey (4.4×), and least common in Texas (0.33×).

2,551 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Reinaldo, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Reinaldo ranks #127,013 of 156,621, with 141 people. See Reinaldo as a last name

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