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Regena

Girls' name

Variant of Regina

Regena has been given to 2,730 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1948, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Regena, 2008

1 in 491,000

Regena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Regena: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Regina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Regena means

Regena is a variant of Regina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Regena is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Regena → Regina. The family’s meaning is “queen”, recorded in English with the source elements rēgīna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Regina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,730 girls were recorded with the name Regena between 1904 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1948; its best national rank was #946 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Regena?

Regena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 491,000
8 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 236,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
340,573 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Regena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 340,573 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Regena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Regenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Regena was born before 1957 — so the typical Regena is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,905
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1950s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (661).

Is Regena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1948 (85)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#946
1948

Spellings of Regena

Regena is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 28.0% against Regena's 0.41%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Regena is used

Across 1910–2025, Regena was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 162,114 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Regena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Regena around the world

Where Regena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Regena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#946
1948
Peak year
1948
85 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
2,730
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Regena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KalenaArlenaEllenaSarenaSirenaDelenaKarenaAllenaVerenaReggieAmeenaMalenaJelenaYelenaAlvenaCelenaSalenaRegineReginaeMarenaMelenaRegeniaLavenaJolena

Names with a curve like Regena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Regena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArnitaLawanaDarnellCherrieKathleneTonieVernitaBeckieWilletteNildaMartyJohnette

Sibling names for Regena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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