Reynolds

Where Reynolds comes from

Reynolds 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. 1867
    Reynolds Beal born
    American artist
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,031 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1901
    Peak, #858
    7 babies named Reynolds — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1933
    Reynolds Price born
    American writer
  6. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Reynolds Price · American writer, 1933–2011
  • Reynolds Beal · American artist, 1867–1951
  • Reynolds Wolf · American weather forecaster, born 1970
  • Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack · Nigerian technocrat, statesman, politician, born 1957
  • Reynolds Cahoon · American Mormon leader, 1790–1861

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.