Given name & surname
Reginald
“the king's advisor”
Reginald is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “the king's advisor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “the king's advisor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Latin Reginaldus, from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reginald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 112,308
- 111,551 boys · 757 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 2,668 babies
- 2025
- 153
- #1,284 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 153 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,284 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 26.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 2,647 in 1962. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (12). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 68,879 as a first name in 2020; 207 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reginald’s family of names
In English usage, Reginald has a diminutive in Reggie. In Catalan usage, Reginald has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ronald. Reginald has a related form in Rene.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Reginald has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 36
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Renevariant
- Reggiediminutive · English
- Reinaldovariant
- Reginovariant
- Reginaldovariant
- Reynoldvariant · English
- Regginaldlikely variant
- Regdiminutive · English
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- Regulovariant
- Raynaldovariant
- Rinaldovariant
- Renaultvariant
- Renaudvariant · French
- Reinoldvariant
- Reinholdvariant
- Reinaldvariant
- Reginvariant
- Raynaldvariant
- Reginnaldlikely variant
- Reginalddlikely variant
- Reginaldusvariant
- Rheinalltvariant
- Reinwaldvariant
- Reinaldosvariant
- Regnaultvariant
- Regnauldvariant
- Reginvaltvariant
- Reginvaldvariant
- Reginaultvariant
- Reginauldvariant
- Reginaltvariant
- Raynierovariant
- Raonullvariant
- Rainholdvariant
- Rainaultvariant
- Raghnallvariant
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Reginald
- Rex HarrisonBritish actor (1908–1990)
- Reginald PoleEnglish cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury1500–1558
- Reginald VelJohnsonAmerican actorborn 1952
- Reginald FessendenCanadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
- Reginald Innes PocockBritish zoologist (1863–1947)
- RedmanAmerican rapper, record producer and actor (born 1970)
- Reginald DohertyEnglish tennis player (1872–1910)
- Reggie Fils-AiméAmerican businessman and 3rd President of Nintendo of America (born 1961)
- Reginald DyerBritish Indian Army general (1864-1927)
Characters named Reginald: Jeeves (stories by P.G. Wodehouse), Reginald Barclay (the Star Trek universe).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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