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Regena vs Reghan

American parents have registered 2,730 Regenas since 1880, against 895 Reghans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Regena against Reghan, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Regena Reghan

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

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Regena for 79 years and Reghan for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Regena Reghan
Total US births 2,730895
Most in one year 8554
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,900890
Median age today 6220
Peak year 19482005
Best rank 939th girls2,969th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19041983
Girls / boys 2,730 / 0895 / 0

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 Regenas alive today are over 62; half the Reghans are over 20. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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