Reinhard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: German surname from OHG ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘strong, hard’; plate shows dental plosive variation -d/-t (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/ˈʁaɪ̯nhaʁt/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Reinhard is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 530
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 512 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Reinhard
- German:/ˈʁaɪ̯nhaʁt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)German surname from OHG ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘strong, hard’; plate shows dental plosive variation -d/-t. Bearer count: 27,450.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Reinhard 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 | #119 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 512 | — | Reinhard | 232 |
| AT Austria | #102 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 526 | 1.8K | Reinhard | 145 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Reinhard | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 67 | Reinhard | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | #517 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 2.2K | Reinhard | 69 |
| US United States | — | 899 | 1 in 370K | 3.9K | Reinhard | 224 |
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Reinhard 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 German, From OHG ragin 'counsel' + hard 'strong, brave'; plate shows vowel variants Rei-, Rey-, Re-, and Mei-/Mey- in the surname.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Germanic: ‘counsel staunch’. ‘Reinhold $ Germanic: ostensibly ‘counsel splendid’, but actually a variant of earlier REINWALD.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, a male given name from Middle High German.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Reinhard (ahd. ragin 'Rat' + hard 'hart, stark'); im Atlas auch zu Reinold, Reinmar, Reinbald belegt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymische FamN zu Rufnamen mit ahd. hard 'hart, stark'; zeigt Auslautvarianz d/t nach r. 26 Typen/27.450 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- Reinhard Scheerb. 1863DEGerman admiral (1863-1928)
- Reinhard Heydrichb. 1904DEGerman Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Reinhard Seltenb. 1930DEGerman economist (1930-2016)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Reinhard come from?
- German surname from OHG ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘strong, hard’; plate shows dental plosive variation -d/-t. Bearer count: 27,450. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- What are other forms of the name Reinhard?
- In the etymology graph, Raynard, Renārs and Rainhard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Reinhard?
- In German /ˈʁaɪ̯nhaʁt/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Reinhard a male or female name?
- Reinhard is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Poland (dane.gov.pl), among others.
- What does the name Reinhard mean?
- Recorded meaning: German surname from OHG ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘strong, hard’; plate shows dental plosive variation -d/-t.
- Which countries have the most people named Reinhard?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Reinhard in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reinhard. After it come Austria, Kenya, Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Reinhard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 899 people named Reinhard in 2020, about 1 in 370 thousand residents.
- How common is Reinhard compared with other names?
- In Germany, Reinhard is the 119th most common given name of 156,202 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, “Reinhard” — the 119th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.