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Reggie vs Reginold

American parents have registered 12,827 Reggies since 1880, against 522 Reginolds. Reggie is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Reggie Reginold

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 1935, when Reggie had 23 and Reginold had 5.

Side by side

  Reggie Reginold
Total US births 12,827522
Most in one year 31823
Babies in 2025 97under 5
Estimated living today 10,000400
Median age today 4758
Peak year 19791965
Best rank 455th boys1,625th boys
Rank in 2025 1,852ndunranked
First recorded 19061930
Girls / boys 551 / 12,2760 / 522

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 Reginolds alive today are over 58; half the Reggies are over 47. That is 11 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: Reggie and Reginold.