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Reggie

#1,860 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Reginald

Reggie has been given to 12,827 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #1,860 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 318 recorded.

Babies named Reggie, 2025

1 in 39,000

Reggie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reggie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Reginald

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reggie means

Reggie is a diminutive of Reginald.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Reggie → Reginald → *Raginawaldaz. The family’s meaning is “decision, advice, counsel + ruler”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements raginą and waldaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Reggie is used in English.

Reggie comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reginald and Regina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Reggie is pronounced /ˈɹɛd͡ʒi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,276 boys were recorded with the name Reggie between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 318 in 1979; its best national rank was #458 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,888 in 2020 to #1,860 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,161 in 2015 to #1,860 in 2025.

In the United States, 551 girls were recorded with the name Reggie between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,058 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,165 in 2020 to #8,748 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,009 in 2015 to #8,748 in 2025.

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 Reggie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,000
85 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,860
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reggie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reggie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reggies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reggie was born before 1973 — so the typical Reggie is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,662
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Choose a decade

1970s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (2,295).

Is Reggie 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
+122
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+301
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.7%
Peak was 1979 (318)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#458
1979

Spellings of Reggie

Reggie is the most-used spelling, taking 61.3% of the 20,015 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Reggie is used

Across 2016–2025, Reggie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,632 boys, against 1 in 28,426 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

138 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,632
  2. 2Idaho1 in 6,667
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 12,500
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Reggie around the world

Where Reggie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #37
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #75
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2025
    #69
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2025
    #163
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2018
    #6,025
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Reggie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,860
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 28
Best rank ever
#458
1979
Peak year
1979
318 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,276
Count in 2025
85

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,748
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,417
Best rank ever
#2,058
1908
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
551
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Reggie

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

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Names with a curve like Reggie

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

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Sibling names for Reggie

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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