Reginald

English
"counsel power"

Reginald Origin and Meaning

The name Reginald is a boy's name of English origin meaning "counsel power".

Now seen as the chap in the smoking jacket in a 1930s drawing-room comedy, Reginald has actually been on the US popularity list every year since 1880.

A name that was quite common throughout the MIddle Ages, in the modern era Reginald has been associated—in its nickname form—with star athletes like Reggie Jackson and Reggie Bush, plus it's the birth name of Elton John. In literature, Reginald Wilfer is a character in the Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend; Reginald is also the first name of capable and oh-so-proper butler Jeeves in P.G. Wodehouse's books, and, indeed, it still reflects his pompous image.

# 987 in the US

Reginald Rank in US Top 1000

# 875 on Nameberry

Reginald Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Reginald Popularity

Famous People Named Reginald

  • Reginald Pole
    last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Reginald Kenneth Dwight
    birth name of Elton John, English singer,songwriter
  • (John) Reginald Owen
    English actor
  • Reginald Leigh Denny
    English actor
  • Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson
    American baseball player
  • Reginald Lucien Frank Roger "Reggie" Watts
    American musician/comedian
  • Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
    Canadian radio pioneer
  • Reginald Theodore Blomfield
    English architect
  • Reginald Maudling
    former British Home Secretary
  • Reginald Frank "R.F." Doherty
    English tennis player
  • Reginald Alan "Reggie" Hudlin
    American film producer
  • Reginald Quincy "Fieldy" Arvizu
    American bassist for band Korn
  • Reginald Heber
    English Bishop of Calcutta
  • Reginald Alfred "Reggie" Bush
    American NFL football player
  • Reginald Howard "Reggie" White
    American NFL football player
  • Reginald Wayne "Reggie" Miller
    American basketball player
  • Reginald Shon "Reggie" Jackson
    American basketball player
  • Reginald Jamaal "Reggie" Evans
    American basketball player
  • Reginald Ryedell "Reggie" Bullock
    American basketball player
  • Reginald "Reggie" Noble aka Redman
    American rapper
  • Reginald Darnell Hunter
    U.K.,based American comedian
  • Reginald Rowan Belknap
    U.S. Navy admiral

Reginald in Pop Culture

  • Reginald Jeeves
    character in P.G. Wodehouse novels
  • Reginald Bunthorne
    character in "Patience" (1881)
  • Reginald "Rex" Bateman
    character in "With the Allies to Pekin" by G. A. Henty
  • Reginald Front
    de,Boeuf, character in "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott
  • Reginald Birch
    character in the "Assassin's Creed" series
  • Reginald Paltry
    character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
  • Reginald "Red" Albert Foreman
    character on TV's "That 70's Show", played by Kurtwood Smith
  • Reginald "Reg" Cattermole
    character in "Harry Potter"