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Regis

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Regis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 601st, in 1917.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
110.00% of boys
Peak year
191798 births
Best rank
#601in 1917
Since 1897
5,528people given the name
Babies named Regis, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

5,185 boys have been named Regis in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 98 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 16%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 343 girls have also been given it, 6.2% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Regis
1890s5
1900s48
1910s484
1920s679
1930s734
1940s838
1950s667
1960s441
1970s257
1980s401
1990s331
2000s136
2010s112
2020s52

In 1917, its biggest year

Regis was the 601st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.

Names that rose and fell with Regis

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.