Boy
Reginald
As a boy's name, Reginald is understood to mean "counsel rule". It is not as common as it was in the 1960s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
GermanicGermanic "ragin" (counsel) + "wald" (rule)
EtymologyMeaning "counsel rule"
Births by decade
1900s
439
1910s
1,929
1920s
3,719
1930s
3,862
1940s
7,102
1950s
19,454
1960s
25,156
1970s
17,393
1980s
13,668
1990s
9,735
2000s
5,270
2010s
2,549
Peaked in the 1960s · 110,276 total U.S. births since 1900