Regina
Regina is ranked 340th among girls in 2024 (911 births). Its best rank was 80th, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- #340down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9110.06% of girls
- Peak year
- 19625,003 births
- Best rank
- #80in 1967
- Since 1880
- 183,476people given the name
The story in the numbers
183,476 girls have been named Regina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 5,003 births — 0.25% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 525 → 340).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Regina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 621 | |
| 1890s | 1,353 | |
| 1900s | 2,243 | |
| 1910s | 7,389 | |
| 1920s | 10,676 | |
| 1930s | 7,045 | |
| 1940s | 12,713 | |
| 1950s | 30,794 | |
| 1960s | 45,826 | |
| 1970s | 28,319 | |
| 1980s | 14,578 | |
| 1990s | 6,915 | |
| 2000s | 4,550 | |
| 2010s | 6,246 | |
| 2020s | 4,208 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Regina was the 92nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Regina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Benitapeak 1961
- Lolitapeak 1963
- Christinepeak 1952
- Geniapeak 1964
- Lorindapeak 1965
- Renettapeak 1962
- Bettinapeak 1965
- Cherriepeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.