Reign

What Reign means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Reign yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,112 in 2015, #451 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Reign?

US: Rising: up from #1112 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2705 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 891 girls got the name (#349 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 2,357 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,066 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.33 per 1,000 girls), DE (2.22 per 1,000 girls), MS (2.02 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Reign is #451 in the US and #733 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 67.2% of US babies named Reign were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rei24 US · 3 E&W
• Wreign5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Reign

Girls

• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025

For a brother

• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Matteo#146Italian, from Latin Matthaeus, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Reign’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.