Reign

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Reign: Recorded since 2007, its highest recorded position is #294, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#294highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#5785
2014	#5691
2015	#2705
2016	#1834
2017	#1512
2018	#990
2019	#864
2020	#771
2021	#734
2022	#586
2023	#617
2024	#722

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 13 of the 18 years from 2007 to 2024.

In 2024: #294 among boys in England and Wales, #352 among boys in Scotland, #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2007–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #4333 among boys in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #294 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2007–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #722 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Reign appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 2007, and has registered 951 births with the name.

Reign 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.

Reign'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
England and Wales · Boys	#4333 (2007)	#294 (2024)	#294 (2024)	13 of 18	951 (2007–2024)	153 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2011)	#586 (2022)	#722 (2024)	12 of 14	407 (2011–2024)	66 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#764 (2019)	#582 (2024)	#582 (2024)	5 of 6	19 (2019–2024)	5 (2024)

Reign 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 Reign in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	279	7 of 10	40
2020sbusiest	669	5 of 10	134

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 134 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 34, from 89 to 123.

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

Reign 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 4 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #294 in England and Wales in 2024.

Reign'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#722	52	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#294	153	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#617	61	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#325	135	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#586	66	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#353	120	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#734	51	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#330	138	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#356	123	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#864	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#454	89	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#990	36	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#511	76	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#709	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1279	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#352	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2007 and 2024, ranked in 14 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #294, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 153 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 17 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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Reilly · #291, 29y
Reiltin · #389, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Greyson · #290, 17y
Ariyah · #288, 15y
Juniper · #285, 19y
Kolton · #303, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Anabia · #293, 17y
Nela · #296, 21y
Maksim · #291, 24y
Austeja · #298, 20y

Reign was ranked #294 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Reign 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Reign without appearing here.

Reign moved ahead of

Madison Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #511 and #4749.
Brooke Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4632 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #709 and #4812.
Erin Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4805 and #4805 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #709 and #4812.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1834 and #5785.

Moved the opposite way to Reign

Aaron Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 while Aaron went from #49 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 while Alan went from #226 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 while Alexander went from #22 to #36.
Alfie Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 while Alfie went from #10 to #16.

Moved the same way as Reign

Aksel Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 and Aksel from #3589 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 and Albie from #400 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 and Alfred from #140 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Reign went from #4333 to #294 and Archie from #33 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #294 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Reign across 3 official records

Reign by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Reign across 3 official records

Reign by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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