Reinhard

Where Reinhard comes from

Reinhard 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.

Along the way
  1. 1895
    Debut at its peak, #978
    #978 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1904
    Reinhard Heydrich born
    German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide
  4. 1952
    Reinhard Genzel born
    German astronomer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Reinhard Heydrich · German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide, 1904–1942
  • Reinhard Genzel · German astronomer, born 1952
  • Reinhard Selten · German economist, 1930–2016
  • Reinhard Scheer · German admiral, 1863–1928
  • Reinhard Marx · German Roman Catholic cardinal, born 1953

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.