Reno
Reno is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 829th, in 1926.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 340.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1996122 births
- Best rank
- #829in 1926
- Since 1886
- 4,135people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,135 boys have been named Reno in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 122 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1990s alone account for 19%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Reno | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 17 | |
| 1900s | 24 | |
| 1910s | 345 | |
| 1920s | 488 | |
| 1930s | 266 | |
| 1940s | 185 | |
| 1950s | 281 | |
| 1960s | 363 | |
| 1970s | 321 | |
| 1980s | 275 | |
| 1990s | 803 | |
| 2000s | 349 | |
| 2010s | 273 | |
| 2020s | 138 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Reno was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Reno
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Armondpeak 1924
- Ruebenpeak 1921
- Gerritpeak 1916
- Donatopeak 1926
- Domenicpeak 2003
- Angelopeak 2007
- Marinopeak 1994
- Gregoriopeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.