Reggie
Reggie reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 455, and has been recorded 12,827 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,852nd. About 10,000 Reggies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Reggie boys named Reggie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,827
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 455th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,852nd
- First recorded
- 1906
- Girls / boys
- 551 / 12,276
How old the living Reggies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,827 babies given the name since 1906, about 10,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Reggies
- Reggie Walker (1889–1951)South African athlete, Olympic medalist
- Reggie Jackson (born 1946)American baseball player and coach
- Reggie Evans (born 1980)American basketball player
- Reggie Lucas (1953–2018)American musician, songwriter, record producer
- Reggie Pridmore (1886–1918)field hockey player
- Reggie Theus (born 1957)American basketball player and coach
- Reggie Workman (born 1937)American double-bassist
- Reggie Nalder (1907–1991)Austrian actor
People named Reggie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Reggie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Reggie is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.9×), Louisiana (3.6×), South Carolina (3.4×), North Carolina (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Reggie peaked:
Reggie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Reggie | 15,996 | 45th |
| Scotland boys | Reggie | 380 | 75th |
| Ireland boys | Reggie | 173 | 163rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Reggie | 137 | 69th |
| France boys | Reggie | 10 | 6,025th |
| England and Wales girls | Reggie | 7 | 4,763rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Reggie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.