Regina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Regina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Latin ‘queen’; used in Ireland as the equivalent of Fiona.
- BRBrazil1 in 966(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.6K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #806 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 391 (inferred from the name graph)
219,074 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin ‘queen’; used in Ireland as the equivalent of Fiona.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Regina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #33 | 219,074 | 1 in 966 | 253K | Regina | 222 |
| US United States | — | 139,152 | 1 in 2.4K | 139K | Regina | 383 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Regina | 31 |
| PH Philippines | #624 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Regina | 92 |
| PL Poland | — | 39,499 | 1 in 969 | 39K | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | — | 12,118 | 1 in 806 | 12K | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 847 | 1.4K | — | 2 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | 31K | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,294 | 1 in 571 | 3.3K | — | 11 |
219,074 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Registrų centras — top-50 given names; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Alternative letter-case form of Regina (“queen”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome latino Regina; matronímico cristão ligado à Rainha do Céu
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Dal latino regina, ‘regina’; oppure dal germanico Regino/Regina, ipocoristico di nomi in ragan/ragin.
as a nameDizionario 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 nameFörnamn 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 136 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 253K | #205 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 219K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 218K | #145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 139K | #405 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39K | #110 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 39K | #110 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 31K | #11 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 12K | #99 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #872 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 850 | #145 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 786 | — |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 334 | #46 |
Reference works 10
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Regina mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin ‘queen’; used in Ireland as the equivalent of Fiona. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Regina?
- In the etymology graph, Gina, Reyna and Reina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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.
- How common is the name Regina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 219,074 people named Regina in 2022, about 1 in 966 residents.
- How common is Regina compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Regina is the 33rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Regina have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Regina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled regina.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reginaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Regina” — the 33rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.