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The first name 
Reiner

Reiner is a male first name.

Reiner – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Reiner in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Reiner in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Reiner by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Reiner ranks at #6,102. That means there are 6,101 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Reiner

Reiner -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Reiner. Boys named Reiner have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,228 Reiner ranked higher than ever in 1961. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Reiner has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2012. In general, parents name their sons Reiner only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Reiner was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Reiner in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Reiner continues to be a precious jewel: 26 newborns were named Reiner that year, ranking #3,562 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Reiner, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Reiner has 6 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With six letters, the name Reiner is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.

Other names with 
R, e, i, n, e and r

If you take all the letters in the name Reiner – R, e, i, n, e and r – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Renier.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Reiner

If your name is Reiner and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Reiner

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Reiner, you can simply say:

Rocket

Elephant

Igloo

Nut

Elephant

Rocket

This is how the name Reiner is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Reiner in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Reiner

Reiner

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Reiner

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Reiner is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
E
I
N
E
R

Have you ever waved the name Reiner

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
E
I
N
E
R

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Reiner sounds like this: