girls:
182.6k births since 1880
#211 (96th percentile)
boys:
563 births since 1915
#4023 (12th percentile)
overall:
183.1k births since 1880
#418 (95th percentile)
The name Regina is the #418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 183,123 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #211 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 182,560 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,023 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 563 births since 1915.
Regina has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Regina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Regina reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 89.5% percentile (ranked #83) with 2,555 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 2,555 births per million (ranked 89.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Regina ranks #309 for girls (67.4% percentile) with 536 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Regina reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #614) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Regina".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Regina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.7% confident that Regina is pronounced as rih-JEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-JEE-nuh, at 19.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R IH0 JH IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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