Reginal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reginal has been given to 2,594 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1970, with 92 recorded.
Babies named Reginal, 2024
1 in 669,000
Reginal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Reginal?
Reginal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reginal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reginal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reginals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reginal was born before 1971 — so the typical Reginal is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 23.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,303
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (606).
Is Reginal 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (92)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Reginal
Reginal is not the most common spelling — Reginald is, with 96.1% against Reginal's 2.2%.
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 Reginal is used
Across 1910–2025, Reginal was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 120,448 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8South Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Reginal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reginal around the world
Where Reginal 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.
- France1951–1972#1,912in 1972
- South Australia1946–1946#252in 1946
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Reginal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Reginal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Reginal
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Reginal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Reginal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.