Regenia
Feminine · “queen”
Regenia is Regina and Eugenia meeting at one spelling. Insert an i into the Latin word for queen and you get something that reads equally as a shortened form of the Greek name about good birth — two entirely separate names arriving at the same seven letters.
How old is the name Regenia?
Regenia first appears in US birth records in 1890 — 135 years ago. The typical Regenia alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 1,900 people named Regenia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Regenia most popular?
Regenia peaked in 1948, reaching #764 nationally. See the whole 1948 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Regina to Regenia
The story of Regenia
Both parent names were in ordinary American use in the same decades, both are Latin or Greek and formal-sounding, and both have the same rhythm — three or four syllables with the stress in the middle. Names that resemble each other that closely tend to blur at the edges, and the record fills with forms that could be either: Regenia, Reginia, Eugenia, Ugenia. What that means practically is that a family's own account of the name is the only evidence there is, because the spelling will not tell you and neither will the census.
Meaningscholars disagree
queen
If the name is Regina lengthened, it means queen. If it is Eugenia with its first syllable altered, it means well-born. Both readings are live and the record does not distinguish them.
How the name formed
- Regina
- Regenia
Related forms: Regina · Eugenia
Pronouncing Regenia
ruh-JEE-nee-uh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. Some families compress it to three, ruh-JEEN-yuh.
Nicknames for Regenia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1890
- Most girls named
- 1948125 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #764reached in 1948
- Change vs 1987
- 0.0%6 in 1991, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Regenia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Regina in Latin — related form
- Eugenia in Greek — related form
Regenias among us
people named Regenia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Regenia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every part of it is familiar, so it is read correctly at sight.
- It carries three short forms with quite different characters.
- It sits behind two separate classical names rather than one.
- Regina and Eugenia are both commoner and will be written instead.
- Its parentage is genuinely double, so the meaning depends on the family.
- It reads clearly as a name of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Regenias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Regenia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Regenia in 2025?
- Regenia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Regenia with classmates?
- Regenia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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