The name Regina means ‘queen’ in Latin. This name is known in many countries and languages such as Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, and Danish.
Regina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Regina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Regina ranks 426. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Regina. In the entire USA, approximately 172,226 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Regina. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
The name Regina means ‘queen’ in Latin. This name is known in many countries and languages such as Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, and Danish.
In the U.S., ... this name was especially popular in the 1960s.
Regina is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Regina. This means that several girls named Regina have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Regina has reached its best rank of #79 multiple times, most recently in 1968. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Regina one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Regina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Regina will be Regina. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Regina in 2022 – in fact 909 to be precise, confirming Regina as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #315 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2009, when only 405 baby girls were named Regina.
The name Regina may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Regina is apparently especially popular in Pennsylvania. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 540 women in Pennsylvania is called Regina. In total, that’s 15,532 women who feel addressed when the name Regina is shouted loudly across Pennsylvania and who ensure that their name makes it to #133 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Regina as the answer a total of 172,205 times. This places Regina at #206 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Regina as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Regina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Regina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Regina, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Goat
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Regina
Regina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
E
G
I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
E
G
I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Regina sounds like this:
