Reggie

Where Reggie comes from

From Reg + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Reggie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,111 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1909
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1979
    Peak, #455
    318 babies named Reggie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #749.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Reginald.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Regina.
Namesakes

No widely known Reggie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.