Reggie
Reggie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 458th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1979318 births
- Best rank
- #458in 1979
- Since 1906
- 12,730people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,191 boys have been named Reggie in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 318 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 19%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 539 girls have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Reggie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 94 | |
| 1920s | 203 | |
| 1930s | 307 | |
| 1940s | 997 | |
| 1950s | 1,665 | |
| 1960s | 2,104 | |
| 1970s | 2,295 | |
| 1980s | 1,546 | |
| 1990s | 1,047 | |
| 2000s | 850 | |
| 2010s | 651 | |
| 2020s | 419 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Reggie was the 458th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1979 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Reggie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dewaynepeak 1962
- Donellpeak 1959
- Chetpeak 1963
- Donnypeak 1977
- Donnellpeak 1982
- Mickypeak 1961
- Geromepeak 1964
- Terrencepeak 1955
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.