Reine

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Reine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. In French, recorded as French word name from reine, meaning 'queen'.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 12K
  • CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 1.1K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈81,000 people, est.

Sources
235 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Brazzaville, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Fr reine/Lat regina ‘queen’, also a derogatory nickname; first attested 1244 Rams (Beds). Also from Rayne, Aberdeenshire; first attested Robert de Ran’ c1180 Black.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

How Reine is read(measured from records)

Reine is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French70%

    French word name from reine, meaning 'queen'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    queen (a female monarch)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Du français « reine », issu du latin regina; évoque la royauté et l’autorité.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Forme francisée de Régine; du latin regina, « reine ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English14%

    from Fr reine/Lat regina ‘queen’, also a derogatory nickname; first attested 1244 Rams (Beds). Also from Rayne, Aberdeenshire; first attested Robert de Ran’ c1180 Black.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Reine 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.

Where Reine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#17≈81,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Reine9
CM Cameroon#228≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Reine20
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈7,100 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Reine15
FR France#926≈5,900 est.≈1 in 12K34KReine235
CG Congo - Brazzaville#70≈5,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Reine7
TG Togo#595≈4,500 est.≈1 in 1.9K1Reine14
SE Sweden—2,1131 in 4.8K2.1K—12

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name85 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Rêinê, Rêïnê, Ręįñê, Reiné, Reinè

  • Portuguese given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Philippines

    Also written Reiné, Rëïnē, Rèîne, Rëìnē, Rëine

  • Swedish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swedish, Danish

    Also written Rèînę, Reiné, Rěìňê, Ręiňę, Rêïňê

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Reiné

  • Indonesian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Rệįně, Réïñê, Rëįnê, Rëïnë, Rëïnė

61 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(measured from records)

Reine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French vernacular form of Latin régina ‘queen’, probably arising for the most part as an affectionate nickname, but also perhaps with reference to the Virgin Mary, one of whose titles is ‘Queen of Heaven’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1850190019502000Reine Davies, b. 1883Violette Szabo, b. 1921Reine Flachot, b. 1922Reine Wisell, b. 1941Reine Almqvist, b. 1949Reine Hibiki, b. 1953Reine Brynolfsson, b. 1953Reine Alapini-Gansou, b. 1956Reine Fiske, b. 1972Reine Iguchi, b. 1981

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 67 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Reine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202434K#3,210
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.1K#1,020
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.1K—
TG TogoJournal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024)20241#23

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Where does the name Reine come from?
from Fr reine/Lat regina ‘queen’, also a derogatory nickname; first attested 1244 Rams (Beds). Also from Rayne, Aberdeenshire; first attested Robert de Ran’ c1180 Black. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
What does the name Reine mean?
In French, French word name from reine, meaning 'queen'.
In which country does Reine have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Reine in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reine.
Is Reine a male or female name?
Reine 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 Reine?
In Sweden, the national register counted 2,113 people named Reine, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
How common is Reine compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Reine is the 17th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.

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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, “Reine” — the 17th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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