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Reginal

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Reginal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 844th, in 1970.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
50.00% of boys
Peak year
197092 births
Best rank
#844in 1970
Since 1914
2,589people given the name
Babies named Reginal, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,589 boys have been named Reginal in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 92 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 1971, and the 1970s alone account for 23%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Reginal
1910s26
1920s90
1930s60
1940s110
1950s357
1960s544
1970s606
1980s379
1990s218
2000s144
2010s50
2020s5

In 1970, its biggest year

Reginal was the 844th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.

Names that rose and fell with Reginal

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.