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Reginald vs Regino

American parents have registered 112,308 Reginalds since 1880, against 865 Reginos. Reginald is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reginald against Regino, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reginald 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

Reginald 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 2023, when Reginald had 192 and Regino had 9.

Side by side

  Reginald Regino
Total US births 112,308865
Most in one year 2,66817
Babies in 2025 1537
Estimated living today 85,000680
Median age today 5338
Peak year 19621977
Best rank 133rd boys2,556th boys
Rank in 2025 1,281st9,714th
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 757 / 111,5510 / 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 Reginalds alive today are over 53; half the Reginos are over 38. That is 15 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: Reginald and Regino.