Reginia
Feminine · “Queen”
Reginia is Regina with an extra i, and Regina is not really a name at all: it is an ordinary Latin word that English adopted whole. Very few of those made the crossing. Most of the Latin in English naming arrived as somebody's actual name first, and this one arrived as a job title.
How old is the name Reginia?
Reginia first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Reginia alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 1,000 people named Reginia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Reginia most popular?
Reginia peaked in 1958, reaching #1588 nationally. See the whole 1958 chart.
Where it comes from
From regina to Reginia
The story of Reginia
The word had two lives before it was a name. It was a title in the litanies of the Church, and it was a legal fiction. In the courts of England and the Commonwealth, criminal prosecutions are brought by the Crown in person, so a case is written Regina against the defendant when a queen is on the throne and Rex when a king is, and the R in a citation is that word and not an abbreviation of anything else. Every criminal trial in those countries is formally an argument with a queen. The name reached ordinary American families much later and much more plainly, and Reginia is the American respelling of it, an inserted letter that turns three syllables into four.
Meaning
Queen
Regina is the Latin word for a queen, unchanged in form and unchanged in meaning. It stands beside Rex, Victor, Felix, Rosa and Stella in a very short list of plain Latin nouns that English took directly as given names, without a saint or a hero in between. Everything else in the Latin layer of English naming, the Julias and the Claudias and the Antonias, came through a family name first.
How the name formed
- regina
- Regina
- Reginia
Related forms: Regina · Regina · Regina · Regine
Pronouncing Reginia
ruh-JEE-nee-uh
The extra i does real work here: Regina is three syllables and Reginia is four. American speakers say the g soft, as a j, which is an English habit rather than a Latin one; classical Latin had a hard g and said it reh-GHEE-na.
Nicknames for Reginia
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
- 1913
- Most girls named
- 196147 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1588reached in 1958
- Change vs 1990
- −16.7%5 in 1994, 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.
Reginia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Regina in Italian — same name
- Regina in Spanish — same name
- Regina in Polish — same name
- Regine in German — related form
Reginias among us
people named Reginia 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
Reginia 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
- A clear, dignified meaning that can be given to a child in one word, with no argument about it anywhere.
- Gina and Reggie are two very different everyday forms, one soft and one brisk.
- It is recognizable in Italian, Spanish, Polish and German with almost no change.
- The English soft g gives the name a rhyme that children discover early, and it is worth knowing that before choosing it.
- Regina is the standard spelling by a wide margin, so this version needs saying and spelling separately.
- Four syllables is a long name for a small child, and it will be shortened by other people if it is not shortened first.
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Frequently asked
- How many Reginias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Reginia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Reginia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Reginia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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