Fun Facts About the Name Reign
- More than 11 thousand babies named Reign: U.S. records list 11,977 babies given the name Reign from 1880 through 2025. Of these, 3,995 boys received the name Reign - about 1 boy for every 2 girls.
What Does the Name Reign Mean?
Reign is an English word name meaning "rule" or "royal authority" - the power or period of a monarch's rule. The word came into Middle English from Old French regne (modern French règne), which descends from Latin regnum, "kingdom, dominion, rule." That Latin noun comes from rex (genitive regis), "king," the same root behind such words as regal, regent, and regicide.
As a given name, Reign is simply the vocabulary word used as a name, so its meaning is the literal one, not a symbolic overlay. It is not a variant of the similar-sounding Reagan or Regan, which are Irish-derived names with a separate history.
Reign Name History & Origins
The noun reign has been part of English since the Middle Ages, borrowed through Old French from Latin and used to describe the rule of kings and queens. Its use as a personal name belongs to the modern English habit of taking abstract vocabulary words - Grace, Hope, Honor, Justice - and giving them to children.
Reign appears in English-speaking countries in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as a given name for both boys and girls. Because it is a word name rather than a hereditary name, it has no earlier forms, saints' traditions, or medieval spellings of its own; its development is the development of the English word.
How Popular is the Name Reign?
Reign recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2021. Its best rank was #349 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #452 | 682 | 0.0424% |
| 2024 | #434 | 712 | 0.0441% |
| 2023 | #413 | 742 | 0.0463% |
| 2022 | #367 | 866 | 0.0528% |
| 2021 | #349 | 891 | 0.0543% |
| 2020 | #356 | 870 | 0.0539% |
| 2019 | #389 | 792 | 0.0472% |
| 2018 | #529 | 593 | 0.0349% |
| 2017 | #705 | 409 | 0.0237% |
| 2016 | #833 | 345 | 0.0195% |
| 2015 | #1,112 | 232 | 0.0130% |
| 2014 | #1,612 | 134 | 0.0075% |
| 2013 | #2,015 | 97 | 0.0055% |
| 2012 | #2,649 | 68 | 0.0039% |
| 2011 | #2,548 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 2010 | #2,357 | 81 | 0.0046% |
| 2009 | #2,797 | 64 | 0.0035% |
| 2008 | #2,915 | 61 | 0.0032% |
| 2007 | #3,461 | 48 | 0.0025% |
| 2006 | #5,197 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2005 | #5,223 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2004 | #4,586 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2003 | #3,453 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2002 | #4,730 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2001 | #4,295 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2000 | #11,548 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1999 | #8,666 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #7,008 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1997 | #13,350 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #13,079 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #772 | 333 | 0.0195% |
| 2024 | #624 | 453 | 0.0264% |
| 2023 | #625 | 450 | 0.0263% |
| 2022 | #646 | 428 | 0.0245% |
| 2021 | #605 | 459 | 0.0263% |
| 2020 | #640 | 419 | 0.0243% |
| 2019 | #771 | 308 | 0.0172% |
| 2018 | #951 | 218 | 0.0120% |
| 2017 | #966 | 215 | 0.0116% |
| 2016 | #1,201 | 158 | 0.0083% |
| 2015 | #1,412 | 122 | 0.0064% |
| 2014 | #2,612 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2013 | #4,034 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #2,755 | 44 | 0.0023% |
| 2011 | #3,766 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2010 | #2,622 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2009 | #3,207 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 2008 | #5,022 | 19 | 0.0009% |
| 2007 | #3,431 | 32 | 0.0015% |
| 2006 | #4,471 | 21 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #3,433 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2004 | #4,742 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2003 | #2,980 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2002 | #5,334 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2001 | #6,824 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2000 | #8,037 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1999 | #7,719 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #7,396 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1994 | #9,936 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Reign Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are a law unto itself. Your tendency is to finish whatever you start. You are tolerant and like to help humanity. You are very active. You are generally warmhearted and gives freely of your time, energy, and sympathetic understanding. You have tolerance and acceptance of the frailties of others. Universal and humanitarian in outlook. This is very compassionate name. You have an eventful, exciting life. You are versatile and have the ability to learn easily.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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