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Regina vs Regino

American parents have registered 184,835 Reginas since 1880, against 865 Reginos. Regina is still ahead, with 786 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Regina Regino

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 2000, when Regina had 499 and Regino had 17.

Side by side

  Regina Regino
Total US births 184,835865
Most in one year 5,01917
Babies in 2025 7867
Estimated living today 139,000680
Median age today 5738
Peak year 19621977
Best rank 91st girls2,556th boys
Rank in 2025 395th9,714th
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 184,272 / 5630 / 865

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 Reginos are over 38. That is 19 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: Regina and Regino.