where does the name reynolds come from
Best Answer: Got list of where most of the Reynolds' came from when they immigrated to U.S. from ancestry.com. Here are the top ones in descending order: Ireland, England, Great Britain, Scotland, Wales & Germany. But couldn't locate the origin of the surname.
The original surname being Renault. Throughout Ireland's rich history, the Reynolds family name was a prominent one, and even today, County Leitrim is the principal stronghold of the name, nearly half the people in Ireland so called hailing from that area.