Reynart as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Reynart

What is the meaning of the name Reynart ?

The baby name Reynart is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced RAY-nart (IPA: /ˈreɪnɑrt/).

Reynart is Germanic in Origin.

Reynart is a Dutch- and English-leaning variant of Reynard/Reinaert, ultimately from Old French Renart, a personal name derived from the Germanic compound Raginhard (ragin “counsel, decision” + hard “hardy, brave”). It thus means “brave counsel” or “strong in advice.” Medieval beast epics - the Old French Roman de Renart and the Middle Dutch Van den vos Reynaerde - made the trickster fox Renart/Reinaert famous, so much so that modern French renard became the common word for “fox.” As a given name, forms of Reynard appear in Norman England and the Low Countries, later surviving mostly as surnames before occasional modern revival.

Variants include Reynard, Renard, Raynard, Reinaert/Reynaert, Reinart, Reinhart, Reinhard, and Reinhardt; related surnames include Regnart. Short forms such as Rey or Ren are used today. Beyond its literal meaning, Reynart carries connotations of wit and resourcefulness from its literary fox namesake.

⚙ Reynart is vanishingly rare. In all, it appears just 1 time, across 1 country.