Reynolds
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Reynolds | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 23 | |
| 1910s | 181 | |
| 1920s | 229 | |
| 1930s | 192 | |
| 1940s | 199 | |
| 1950s | 181 | |
| 1960s | 136 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 76 | |
| 1990s | 68 | |
| 2000s | 72 | |
| 2010s | 118 | |
| 2020s | 85 |
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.
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Coypeak 1926
- Thurstonpeak 1918
- Olanpeak 1920
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Hollispeak 1921
- Everettepeak 1919
- Hiltonpeak 1920
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.