Regina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rodjana in SE Sweden, NO Norway and รจนา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Regina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name2.3M records spelled Regina32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Reginae, Régina, Règina, Ŕegina, Reginae'

• Russian given name280K records spelled Regina72 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Uzbek

  Also written Регина, Регіна, Регины, Регине, Реджина

• a separate given name118K records spelled Regina5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Regīna, Régina, Regína, Ṛegina

• Hungarian given name107K records spelled Regina8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, United States, Estonia

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Regīna, Régina

• Indonesian given name36K records spelled Regina4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Regina, Regina'

85 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Regina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• From the Latin vocabulary word meaning ‘queen’. It was occasionally used as a given name among the early Christians; a St Regina, probably of the 3rd century, was venerated as a virgin martyr at Autun from an early date. In modern use it is normally borne by Roman Catholics in allusion to the epithet Régina Coeli ‘Queen of Heaven’, a cult title of the

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, Alternative letter-case form of Regina (“queen”).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, do nome latino Regina; matronímico cristão ligado à Rainha do Céu

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Italian, Dal latino regina, ‘regina’; oppure dal germanico Regino/Regina, ipocoristico di nomi in ragan/ragin.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Swedish, Regina är ett latinskt namn, identiskt med ordet regina ’drottning’. Inom katolicismen har namnet använts med association till jungfru Maria (Regina coeli ’himladrottningen’). I den rikssvenska almanackan den 12 mars och i den finlandssvenska 7 september, där till minne av en fransk martyr (död 251).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Māyāb. 600NPnot in their usual namequeen; mother of the Buddha
• Regina Bianchib. 1921ITItalian actress (1921–2013)
• Regina, Crown Princess of Austriab. 1925DEAustrian Imperial and Royal (1925–2010)
• Elis Reginab. 1945BRBrazilian singer of popular and jazz music (1945–1982)
• Regina Taylorb. 1960USAmerican actress and playwright
• Shania Twainb. 1965CAnot in their usual nameCanadian country music singer and songwriter (born 1965)
• Regina Hallb. 1970USAmerican actress (born 1970)
• Regina Kingb. 1971USAmerican actress and director (born 1971)
• Jenna Fischerb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
• Regina Spektorb. 1980USAmerican musician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,413 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Regina?

We estimate roughly 463 thousand people bear Regina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Regina have the most bearers?

We estimate about 219 thousand people bear Regina in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled regina.

Where is Regina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Regina is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 89 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Regina compared with other names?

In Brazil, Regina is the 114th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Regina a male or female name?

Regina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Regina mean?

Recorded meaning: Latin ‘queen’; used in Ireland as the equivalent of Fiona.