Reggie
Reggie is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 85 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,748 among girls’ names and #1,860 among boys’, #3,620 among all names counting both); 12,827 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,200 Americans named Reggie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 31 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reggie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Reggie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Reggie is “a diminutive of the male given name Reginald.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Regina.”
From Reg + -ie.
/ˈɹɛd͡ʒi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Reggie?
#1,860 among boys’ names, 2025
Reggie rose from #2,161 in 2015 to #1,860 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 49.8 per million.
318 babies in 1979, the peak
Reggie peaked in 1979, when 318 boys were given it, #458 among boys’ names. The 97 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,860 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #1,982 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,949 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,849 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,738 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,888 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,035 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,226 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,558 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,222 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,161 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,454 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,158 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 72 | #1,942 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 78 | #1,871 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,650 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 82 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 79 | #1,765 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 85 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 82 | #1,599 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,418 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 81 | #1,508 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,457 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,272 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,126 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,416 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,035 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,262 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 120 | #974 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 121 | #942 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 106 | #934 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 130 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 114 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 131 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 134 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 161 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 187 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 241 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 242 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 318 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 284 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1977 | 231 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 208 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 224 | #536 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 204 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 220 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 205 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 200 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 201 | #571 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 223 | #525 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 189 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 192 | #539 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 148 | #611 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 160 | #604 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 208 | #547 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 217 | #538 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 241 | #509 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 257 | #493 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 269 | #484 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 263 | #484 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 229 | #509 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 198 | #549 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 160 | #602 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 162 | #578 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 122 | #656 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 136 | #619 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 126 | #624 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 132 | #614 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 137 | #580 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 110 | #657 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 110 | #644 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 102 | #688 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 106 | #625 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 96 | #620 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 92 | #650 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 96 | #653 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 98 | #644 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 102 | #588 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 85 | #658 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 47 | #915 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 42 | #989 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 44 | #938 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,189 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,458 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,844 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,240 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,230 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,717 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,221 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reggie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,827 Americans recorded as Reggie, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Reggie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reggie, and how old are they?
10,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 12,827 Americans ever recorded as Reggie. The median Reggie alive today is 48 years old; half are between 31 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 11,717 people named Reggie (444 women and girls, 11,273 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 277 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,420 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Reggie born?
The states with the most babies named Reggie are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,070 | #2,726 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 765 | #2,868 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 584 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 581 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 510 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 504 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 471 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 427 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 384 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| South Carolina | 380 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Reggie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reggie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Reggie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 12,961 babies since 1880, Reggie is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 97 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reggie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Reggie and names like it
- Compare Reggie and RegieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sReggie peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reggie since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Reggie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Reggie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.