Reinhold
Fewer than 500 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it in over twenty years of records. A Germanic name at root, built from elements for wise counsel and a strong ruler.
Reinhold Pronunciation
Reinhold is pronounced re-EEN-kholt (/rɛˈinxɔlt/).
What Reinhold means
Where Reinhold comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Reinhold comes from Germanic roots, built from two old elements. The first, ragin, meant counsel or wise decision. The second, wald, meant rule or power. Bound together, they named someone who advises well and governs firmly, which is what the Polish gloss keeps: mądry doradca, potężny władca.
The name stayed close to German-speaking lands. Its most visible modern bearer may be Reinhold Messner, born in South Tyrol, the first person to climb Everest without bottled oxygen. In him the two halves seem to meet, the counsel of careful planning and the will to master a mountain.
On a Polish class register, Reinhold reads as plainly foreign, a marker of German or Silesian family lines. It has no Polish diminutive of its own and travels without variants. What it offers instead is that old compound, ragin and wald, a wise counsellor who also holds power.
How many people are named Reinhold
1 in 51190 men in Poland is named Reinhold. 417 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1455 among male names.
Reinhold as a middle name
Reinhold is a first name for 417 men in Poland and a middle name for another 180, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 510th, between Rajnold (180) and Marius (179).
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#508 Sean181
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#509 Rajnold180
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#510 Reinhold180
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#511 Marius179
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#512 Valentin179