Reginald

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Reginald: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning or origin yet — what that means.

Pronunciation

Community-contributed pronunciation recording

Recording by Marcel Coenders. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

VerifiedSource: Wikidata.Confidence: medium.

Reginald: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #85, and it stood at #228 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#85highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Reginald's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1104
1997	#1052
1998	#2074
1999	#2425
2000	#1425
2001	#1949
2002	#1799
2003	#1248
2004	#1347
2005	#1299
2006	#1127
2007	#926
2008	#1085
2009	#682
2010	#854
2011	#852
2012	#805
2013	#570
2014	#502
2015	#435
2016	#296
2017	#280
2018	#284
2019	#249
2020	#224
2021	#234
2022	#224
2023	#247
2024	#239
2025	#228

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 17 of the 61 years from 1965 to 2025.

In 2025: #228 among boys in England and Wales, #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #91 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1954
Highest recorded position: #85 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1953 (recorded 1952–1954).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #228 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Reginald appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 2,552 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Reginald across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Reginald's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#194 (1965)	#194 (1965)	#829 (2025)	17 of 61	66 (1965–2025)	6 (1965)
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#224 (2020)	#228 (2025)	30 of 30	2,552 (1996–2025)	226 (2022)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#91 (1952)	#85 (1953)	#99 (1954)	3 of 3	193 (1952–1954)	74 (1953)

Reginald by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Reginald in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	4 of 10	9
2000s	176	10 of 10	18
2010s	1,067	10 of 10	107
2020sbusiest	1,275	6 of 10	213

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 213 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 71, from 95 to 166.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Reginald appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #85 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953.

Reginald's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#228	217	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#239	206	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#247	194	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#224	226	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#234	214	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#224	218	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#249	197	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#284	177	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#280	185	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#296	166	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#435	95	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#502	78	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#570	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#805	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#682	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1085	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#926	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1127	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#99	56	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#85	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	63	Insufficient	Not yet available
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#273	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#316	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#279	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	5	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	5	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#199	6	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#194	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Reginald is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Reginald, between 1952 and 2025, in 48 of those 74 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1952–1954	3	#85 in 1953
Republic of Ireland	1965–2025	17	#194 in 1965
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#224 in 2020

Its high point came 67 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1953) than in England and Wales (2020).

No registrar recorded it for 10 years after 1954; it appears again in 1965.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 2025, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #85, first reached in 1953.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 226 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1965, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jeffery · #87, 43y
Harold · #88, 51y
Naoise · #88, 50y
Rafal · #79, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Maiken · #85, 62y
Mervyn · #85, 37y
Gloria · #86, 65y
Stewart · #84, 70y

Reginald was ranked #85 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1953. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Reginald and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Reginald without appearing here.

Reginald moved ahead of

Brent
In 2005 they stood at #1299 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1127 and #2538.
Grant
In 2008 they stood at #1085 and #1085 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #682 and #1568.
Graeme
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1595 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1799 and #2636.
Graham
In 2005 they stood at #1299 and #954 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1127 and #1892.

Moved ahead of Reginald

Ollie
In 1997 they stood at #1052 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #924.
Cooper
In 1997 they stood at #1052 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #1110.
Hunter
In 2009 they stood at #682 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #854 and #625.
Hudson
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1248 and #1092.

Moved the opposite way to Reginald

Harry
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 while Harry went from #250 to #25.
Jude
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 while Jude went from #129 to #61.
Leo
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 while Leo went from #99 to #10.
Oliver
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 while Oliver went from #69 to #18.

Moved the same way as Reginald

Adrian
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 and Adrian from #62 to #348.
Alan
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 and Alan from #27 to #232.
Andrew
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 and Andrew from #32 to #106.
Anthony
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Reginald went from #194 to #829 and Anthony from #12 to #135.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #85 in New South Wales, Australia in 1953. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Reginald

Pronunciation

Reginald at a glance

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Reginald across 3 official records

Reginald by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Reginald appears in

Popularity data

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What stands out in Reginald's record

Reginald across 3 official records

Reginald by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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