Gender-neutral · #451 in 2025

Reign

Reign: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#451
Born 2025
682
Peak year
2021

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Reign per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2021. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Reign has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 79% of its 2021 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 67% of children named Reign were recorded as girls and 33% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.