Reinard Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Reinard? Think of it as Reinhard with a different pen. The family name meaning is “Counsel-hardy”, the same as for Reinhard.

Reinard coat of arms

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Reinard, so the heraldry linked to Reinhard is a starting point, not an automatic right.

A variant of Reinhard

Without the “h” of Reinhard, Reinard is a simpler written form of the same name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The 2010 census count for Reinard in the United States was 716, good for rank 32,203. 975 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Reinard name at birth. Want more than a summary? See the Reinard family name pack.