The Rinehart surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 13,392 people carried this name — #2,688 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 22,000 people counted. That is up 2% from 13,192 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Rinehart surname
A surname from German [in turn transferred from the given name], variant of Reinhardt.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rinehart» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
87 families named Rinehart, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 481 people lived in those households, 5.5 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Rinehart, Rainhart, Raneheart, Reenhart, Reihart, Reinard, Reinhard, Reinhart, Rhinehart, Rhineheart, Rienhart, Rignhart, Rinard, Rinehard, Rinehast, Rineheart, Rinehot, Rinert, Rinhart, Rynehart, Rynhot. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 259 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Rinehart in American newspapers,
1899–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 29,389 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Rinehart in Australian newspapers,
1890s–1990s.
298 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rinehart. The most, 89, date from the 1920s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 2.1 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Rinehart.
Who carried it
People named Rinehart,
with a public archive behind them.
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William Henry Rinehart 1825–1874 · artist -
William V. Rinehart 1835–1918 · politician -
Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876–1958 · screenwriter -
Buck Rinehart 1946–2015 · lawyer -
Conrad Rinehart 1806– · farmer
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Sarah Rinehart 1807– · housekeeper
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 43 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Rinehart,
in the records of 3 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States714 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 438
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 189
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 44
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 21
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 12
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 5
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 2
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record William M. RinehartBorn 1916 in Virginia. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York; laundry worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1957, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record William Edgar RinehartBorn 1929; from Louisville, Kentucky. U.S. Marine Corps; killed in action 1951 in Korea. Buried at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Kentucky.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Jacob RinehartArrived at New York in 1851 aboard the Madison from Antwerp, aged 28; farmer. From Germany; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 714 records for Rinehart in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Canada7 records
- Halifax municipal cemeteries 3
- Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 2
- City of Calgary cemetery records 1
- Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 1
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Jennie RinehartBuried in 1982 at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 95.
Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. -
Example: civil register, 1880 Death record George Willis RinehartDied 1953 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. -
Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record Lorna Virginia Margaret RinehartMarried 1945 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
Showing 3 of 7 records for Rinehart in Canada.
Counts: Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. · Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).
Australia3 records
- Queensland State Archives indexes 2
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 1
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Eliza RinehartArrived in Victoria in 1861 as an assisted immigrant aboard the Ascendant, aged 18.
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Example: civil register, 1880 Civil record Annie RinehartNominated immigrants to Queensland in 1910.
Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 2 of 3 records for Rinehart in Australia.
Counts: Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rinehart.
- Rinaldi 7,756 · U.S. census
- Rinaldo 1,052 · 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
- Ringenbach 194 · U.S. census
- Ringer 5,283 · U.S. census
- Ringler 3,472 · U.S. census
- Ringo 2,596 · U.S. census
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