The Rinaldo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,052 people carried this name — #23,978 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 277,800 people counted. That is down 13% from 1,204 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Rinaldo surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rinaldo» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 159 people named Rinaldo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 154 people named Rinaldo.
48 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 23 départements, most often Guadeloupe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
39 people named Rinaldo live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
378 people named Rinaldo is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Rinaldo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Matthew John Rinaldo 1931–2008 · politician -
Serafino Rinaldo 1561–1627 · Catholic priest
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Vincenzo Rinaldo 1867–1927 · architect
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Karl-Arnold Rinaldo 1911–1984 · motorsports competitor
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John Beach Rinaldo 1912–1999 · ethnologist
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Svante Rinaldo 1937–
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rinaldo.
- Rihn 488 · U.S. census
- Rima 558 · U.S. census
- Rimbert 159 · U.S. census
- Rime 149 · U.S. census
- Rimlinger 124 · U.S. census
- Rinaldi 7,756 · U.S. census
- Rinaudo 380 · U.S. census
- Rinck 733 · U.S. census
- Rincon 16,455 · U.S. census
- Rinderknecht 437 · U.S. census
- Ring 16,381 · U.S. census
- Ringeisen 391 · U.S. census
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