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Reggie vs Regine

American parents have registered 12,827 Reggies since 1880, against 1,388 Regines. Reggie is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reggie Regine

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 117 years in which either name was published, Reggie for 116 years and Regine for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Reggie Regine
Total US births 12,8271,388
Most in one year 318174
Babies in 2025 97under 5
Estimated living today 10,0001,300
Median age today 4732
Peak year 19791994
Best rank 455th boys1,048th girls
Rank in 2025 1,852ndunranked
First recorded 19061915
Girls / boys 551 / 12,2761,388 / 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 Reggies alive today are over 47; half the Regines are over 32. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Reggie Regine
France 1063,065 Régine

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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