Regina
Regina reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 91, and has been recorded 184,835 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 395th. About 139,000 Reginas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Regina boys named Regina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 184,835
- Estimated living today
- 139,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 91st
- Rank in 2025
- 395th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 184,272 / 563
How old the living Reginas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 184,835 babies given the name since 1880, about 139,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 38,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
. The given name originally referred to the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven. The Canadian city was named for Queen Victoria, as suggested by Princess Louise.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Reginas
- Regina King (born 1971)American actress and director
- Regina Spektor (born 1980)American musician
- Elis Regina (1945–1982)Brazilian singer of popular and jazz music
- Regina Hall (born 1970)American actress
- Regina Duarte (born 1947)Brazilian actress
- Regina Todorenko (born 1990)Ukrainian actress, presenter and singer
- Regina Jonas (1902–1944)first woman to be ordained as a rabbi
- Regīna Ezera (1930–2002)Latvian writer
People named Regina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Regina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Regina is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.0×), Pennsylvania (1.6×), Maryland (1.4×), Alabama (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular girls’ names the year Regina peaked:
Regina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Regina +1 spelling | 5,060 | 171st |
| Ireland girls | Regina | 1,667 | 93rd |
| Italy girls | Regina | 784 | — |
| Norway girls | Regina | 379 | 277th |
| England and Wales girls | Regina | 265 | 1,692nd |
| Poland girls | Regina | 238 birth registrations | 281st |
| Switzerland girls | Regina | 91 | 530th |
| Belgium girls | Regina | 5 | 1,234th |
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.
Regina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Regina | 81 | 0.007% | 408th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Regina | 8 | 0.002% | 670th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Regina | 2 | 0.003% | 170th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Regina: rank by region
In 2025, Regina was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Regina | 209 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Regina | 248 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Regina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Regina | 5,956 | 17,756 |
| Finland girls | Regina | 572 | 2,341 |
| the Netherlands boys | Regina | — | 473 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,341 who carry it, 572 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Regina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 6,821 women called Regina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lugo | Regina | 81 | 0.483 | 279 |
| Pontevedra | Regina | 219 | 0.446 | 282 |
| Zamora | Regina | 37 | 0.443 | 322 |
| Ourense | Regina | 70 | 0.441 | 291 |
| Salamanca | Regina | 67 | 0.396 | 319 |
| León | Regina | 90 | 0.391 | 341 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Regina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.