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Reganne vs Reggie

American parents have registered 12,827 Reggies since 1880, against 225 Regannes. Reggie is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reganne against Reggie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reganne Reggie

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

Reggie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Reganne had 24 and Reggie had 81.

Side by side

  Reganne Reggie
Total US births 22512,827
Most in one year 26318
Babies in 2025 under 597
Estimated living today 22010,000
Median age today 2347
Peak year 19991979
Best rank 4,313th girls455th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,852nd
First recorded 19971906
Girls / boys 225 / 0551 / 12,276

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 Reggies alive today are over 47; half the Regannes are over 23. That is 24 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 Reggie.