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Reganne vs Regina

American parents have registered 184,835 Reginas since 1880, against 225 Regannes. Regina is still ahead, with 786 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reganne against Regina, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reganne Regina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Regina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Reganne had 24 and Regina had 408.

Side by side

  Reganne Regina
Total US births 225184,835
Most in one year 265,019
Babies in 2025 under 5786
Estimated living today 220139,000
Median age today 2357
Peak year 19991962
Best rank 4,313th girls91st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked395th
First recorded 19971880
Girls / boys 225 / 0184,272 / 563

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Reginas alive today are over 57; half the Regannes are over 23. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Reganne and Regina.