Reinaldo
Where Reinaldo comes from
Reinaldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1912First appearance#2,269 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1943Reinaldo Arenas bornCuban poet/novelist/playwright
- 1963Peak, #80788 babies named Reinaldo — more than any year before or since.
- 1979Reinaldo bornBrazilian association football player
- 1993The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,875.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Reinaldo Arenas · Cuban poet/novelist/playwright, 1943–1990
- Reinaldo · Brazilian association football player, born 1979
- Reinaldo Vicente Simão · Brazilian association football player, born 1968
- Reinaldo Rueda · Colombian football coach, born 1957
- Reinaldo Alagoano · Brazilian association football player, born 1986
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.