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Reginold vs Regis

American parents have registered 5,536 Regises since 1880, against 522 Reginolds. Regis is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reginold against Regis, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reginold Regis

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

Regis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1897 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1972, when Reginold had 17 and Regis had 19.

Side by side

  Reginold Regis
Total US births 5225,536
Most in one year 23107
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 4002,700
Median age today 5857
Peak year 19651917
Best rank 1,625th boys599th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,910th
First recorded 19301897
Girls / boys 0 / 522343 / 5,193

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.

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