Reign
Reign is a unisex name: 682 girls and 333 boys were given it in 2025 (#452 among girls’ names and #772 among boys’, #645 among all names counting both); 11,991 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,900 Americans named Reign and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reign by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Reign mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Reign is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Reign?
#452 among girls’ names, 2025
Reign rose from #1,113 in 2015 to #452 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.42 per 1,000.
1,350 babies in 2021, the peak
Reign peaked in 2021, when 1,350 babies were given it (891 girls, #349 among girls’ names). The 1,015 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 682 | #452 | 333 | #772 |
| 2024 | 714 | #434 | 455 | #623 |
| 2023 | 743 | #413 | 450 | #625 |
| 2022 | 868 | #366 | 429 | #643 |
| 2021 | 891 | #349 | 459 | #605 |
| 2020 | 871 | #357 | 419 | #640 |
| 2019 | 792 | #389 | 310 | #767 |
| 2018 | 594 | #529 | 219 | #951 |
| 2017 | 409 | #705 | 215 | #967 |
| 2016 | 345 | #833 | 158 | #1,201 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 232 | #1,113 | 123 | #1,402 |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,612 | 47 | #2,610 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,015 | 25 | #4,032 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,649 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,547 | 28 | #3,765 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,357 | 47 | #2,621 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,796 | 36 | #3,206 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,914 | 19 | #5,018 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,461 | 32 | #3,429 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,197 | 21 | #4,470 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,219 | 29 | #3,429 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,583 | 18 | #4,740 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,449 | 33 | #2,976 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,726 | 14 | #5,327 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,291 | 10 | #6,817 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,540 | 8 | #8,030 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,660 | 8 | #7,713 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,002 | 8 | #7,389 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,345 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,073 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,931 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Reign a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,991 Americans recorded as Reign, 67% are girls and 33% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Reign: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reign, and how old are they?
11,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,991 Americans ever recorded as Reign. The median Reign alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 3,899 people named Reign (2,633 women and girls, 1,266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 956 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,900 |
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 Reign born?
The states with the most babies named Reign are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 121 | #395 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 77 | #365 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 74 | #166 | 1.6× |
| California | 63 | #934 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #289 | 1.0× |
| New York | 41 | #699 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 40 | #361 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 38 | #379 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 36 | #460 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 34 | #323 | 1.0× |
Where Reign is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reign is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1994 it was given 3.1 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 girls’ 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 Reign 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,806 babies since 1880, Reign is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,015 of their 2,469 babies (41%), the second most given that year.
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 Reign
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 Reign and names like it
- Compare Reign and ReaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sReign peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reign since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Reign.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reign alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.