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Regan vs Regino

American parents have registered 20,053 Regans since 1880, against 865 Reginos. Regan is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Regan against Regino, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Regan 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

Of the 98 years in which either name was published, Regan for 81 years and Regino for 17 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Regan Regino
Total US births 20,053865
Most in one year 81017
Babies in 2025 977
Estimated living today 19,000680
Median age today 2438
Peak year 20011977
Best rank 391st girls2,556th boys
Rank in 2025 2,276th9,714th
First recorded 19201917
Girls / boys 16,307 / 3,7460 / 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 Reginos alive today are over 38; half the Regans are over 24. That is 14 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: Regan and Regino.