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Reynolds

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Reynolds is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 927th, in 1901.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
200.00% of boys
Peak year
192332 births
Best rank
#927in 1901
Since 1888
1,779people given the name
Babies named Reynolds, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,656 boys have been named Reynolds in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 32 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 123 girls have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Reynolds
1880s5
1890s7
1900s23
1910s181
1920s229
1930s192
1940s199
1950s181
1960s136
1970s84
1980s76
1990s68
2000s72
2010s118
2020s85

In 1923, its biggest year

Reynolds was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.

Names that rose and fell with Reynolds

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.