Reginal
Reginal was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,594 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,050 Americans named Reginal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 40 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reginal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reginal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,794, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
92 babies in 1970, the peak
Reginal peaked in 1970, when 92 boys were given it, #844 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,794 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,564 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,670 | 4.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,482 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,428 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,937 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,999 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,158 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,759 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,981 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | #6,376 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,528 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,059 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,766 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,287 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,694 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,333 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,292 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,814 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,556 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,521 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,450 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,919 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,612 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,801 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,730 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,112 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,819 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,340 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,964 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,686 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,782 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,755 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,781 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,479 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,234 | 31.3 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,466 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,313 | 29.0 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,269 | 31.1 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,238 | 31.6 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,119 | 37.0 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,339 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,015 | 42.0 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,053 | 38.5 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,004 | 40.1 |
| 1971 | 69 | #983 | 39.0 |
| 1970 | 92 | #844 | 49.5 |
| 1969 | 71 | #908 | 39.7 |
| 1968 | 65 | #897 | 37.4 |
| 1967 | 67 | #883 | 38.4 |
| 1966 | 57 | #966 | 32.0 |
| 1965 | 58 | #974 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,213 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,115 | 23.6 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,333 | 16.9 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,092 | 24.5 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,111 | 23.4 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,223 | 19.2 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,231 | 18.8 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,147 | 21.3 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,201 | 19.4 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,268 | 17.5 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,306 | 16.7 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,209 | 19.8 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,542 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,274 | 18.1 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,644 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,199 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,197 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,898 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,859 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,942 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,279 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,162 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,673 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,834 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,289 | 9.5 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,446 | 9.0 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,807 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,042 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,105 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,941 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,800 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,044 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,522 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,484 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,244 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,386 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,867 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,894 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,786 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,400 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,193 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,798 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,923 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,827 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,676 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,890 | 6.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,652 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reginal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reginal has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 99 years of records.
Girls and boys named Reginal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reginal, and how old are they?
2,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,594 Americans ever recorded as Reginal. The median Reginal alive today is 52 years old; half are between 40 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,830 people named Reginal (38 women and girls, 1,792 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 855 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 471 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 223 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
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 Reginal born?
The states with the most babies named Reginal are Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 205 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 123 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Alabama | 63 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 32 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Reginal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reginal is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1914 it was given 3.5 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 Reginal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reginal
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 Reginal and names like it
- Compare Reginal and TadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sReginal peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reginal since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Reginal.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Reginal alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.