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
- 1895Debut at its peak, #978#978 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1896The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1904Reinhard Heydrich bornGerman Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide
- 1952Reinhard Genzel bornGerman 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.